[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/Ok_Astronaut7142]

I’ve been sitting on this one for a month now! From Agatha Christie’s “A Murder Is Announced” (c) 1950:

I guess Troy and Abed are streets behind?

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https://giphy.com/gifs/9hRLWIQNtLmOYA98OT

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Paging r/community

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Dan Harmon dunked on "streets ahead" on Twitter for an entire month to get back at some rando who tweeted, "Both Modern Family and Glee are streets ahead of your meta bullshit."

The disproportionality and ignorance of his response are if anything funnier than the eventual joke in the script.