# What's the deal with all of those hubcaps leaning up agianst telephone poles?

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Undoubtedly you will. It comes up every so often on SDMB threads, and is probably where I first learned it a decade or more ago. It was just used not two weeks ago in another thread:

> [@Unlikely coincidences you have experienced](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-coincidences-you-have-experienced/970790/20):
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> That’s a classic case of the Baader-Meinhoff effect aka frequency illusion. It’s a phenomenon I’ve often encountered, especially since I’ve been following the Dope. Of course I first heard of that effect here too.

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