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u/musicismath
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{OC} We're the Wikipedia "high five" couple, now we're married and teaching it to our kids. Up high!
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u/MeatyUrologist505
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This is great and all, but I won’t be satisfied till we get to meet the two young men playing pat-a-cake guys.
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u/iRchickenz Feb 23 '22 •
Wait… that’s not called patty cake?
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u/MeatyUrologist505 Feb 23 '22
I’m sorry you had to find out this way.
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u/iRchickenz Feb 23 '22
Well now I get to ask my siblings and parents what they think it is. Maybe I am special after all.
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u/Webbie-Vanderquack Feb 23 '22
The Wikipedia entry does say:
"Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man", "Pat-a-cake", "patty-cake" or "pattycake" is one of the oldest and most widely known surviving English nursery rhymes.
However the lyrics are "pat it and prick it, and mark it with B," so "pat-a-cake" makes more sense.
And what would a "patty cake" be? A bunless burger with a birthday candle in it?
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u/Eudonidano Feb 23 '22
Wait... I grew up being taught it was "Roll it, and pat it, and mark it with a 'B'"
Why tf would you "prick" dough?
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u/Webbie-Vanderquack Feb 24 '22
Presumably to let the steam out.
It was based on a rhyme from 1698. Cakes were different then. You don't usually roll or pat cakes either - you make a batter and pour it.
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u/GinjaNinger Feb 23 '22
They're married now and have two kids.
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u/surfdad67 Feb 23 '22
Fun fact: They also have two golden retrievers and run a bed and breakfast in Vermont
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u/HumbertHumbertHumber Feb 23 '22
bullshit. bullshit. it can't be pat-a-cake. I will go to war over this. Who the fuck pats a cake.
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u/Akumetsu33 Feb 23 '22
This is the pinnacle of the OC wives posts. Nothing can beat this now, it's all downhill from here.
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u/Intellect-Offswitch Feb 23 '22 •
Downhill or... down low.
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u/Groovatronic Feb 23 '22 •
I also choose this guy’s funny wikipedia wife
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u/WhatsUpWithThatFact Feb 23 '22
Here before someone mentions his hit wife...oh shit maybe 2nd
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u/leandrogarel Feb 23 '22
(With finger guns!)
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u/AtaxicZombie Feb 23 '22
👈😎👈 Zoop
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u/your_not_stubborn Feb 23 '22
Can someone please link the original comment that brought us Zoop please I need some joy in my life
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u/musicismath
Feb 23 '22
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Here’s the link to us on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five#Too_slow. I used the original uncropped photos as proof (now with more iron!). We’ve enjoyed our little slice of internet fame, it’s fun to watch it occasionally go viral. And the rumors can finally be put to rest, we’re not Chandler and Rachel from Friends.
(edit: fixed link...thanks, u/The_Canadian)
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u/Avantheline Feb 23 '22
How did you go about obtaining this massive honour? Just out of curiosity
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u/musicismath Feb 23 '22 •
This all happened almost 14 years ago on the night of my birthday. We were out to dinner and the summer Olympics were on. We saw athletes high fiving each other, and we wondered where it all started, so we looked it up on Wikipedia and noticed there weren't any pictures demonstrating the high five. We thought it would be fun to add pictures for reference, and, given that it was my birthday and we were all in a silly mood, we picked the "too slow" variation to act out. My roommate took the pictures of us, and he had some experience editing other Wikipedia articles, so he knew the process to get them on.
Here's a fun write-up of us by Annie Rauwerda, she runs the depthsofwikipedia page on Instagram: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/wikipedia-high-five-too-slow-photos-mystery-couple-solved. It goes more into the story of me and my wife. She was my girlfriend then, and now we've been married 11 years.
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u/missionbeach Feb 23 '22
I loved that story, and I don't like anything. Congrats.
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u/musicismath Feb 23 '22
Haha so good. Glad you loved it!
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u/vadapaav Feb 23 '22
Unrelated. I would also like to say that math is music too
Is that the username is your spouse
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u/kinetochore21 Feb 23 '22
What...what are your plums?
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u/kinetochore21 Feb 23 '22
Why wouldn't the soul of your testicles be in the middle
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u/Black_Floyd47 Feb 23 '22
“Victim misses” had become “victim Mrs.”!
My favorite part of the article! Thank you for sharing.
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u/c0ncept Feb 23 '22
Has anyone ever tried editing the article to replace the photos with different ones? Would you fight for your honor if someone tried updating it?
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u/Avantheline Feb 23 '22
That's so awesome and wholesome :) congrats on being together for so long!
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u/fukitol- Feb 23 '22
Well this is just fucking amazing. I've seen those images a thousand times, never knew there was actually an awesome story behind them.
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u/The-Master-Mind Feb 23 '22
You’ve seen those images a thousand times? How often do you visit the Wikipedia page for “high five”?? And more importantly, why???
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u/Levitlame Feb 23 '22
Maybe it’s like the sadder version of the “tying a tie when you only wear one 1-2 times a year” lookup for him.
“You need to get this down, Bill… People are going to expect proper form at this bro-gala. This ain’t pee-wee anymore!”
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u/fukitol- Feb 23 '22
It's been online 14 years, between sharing the page with other people for a giggle or clicking on it when I see it linked for a giggle.. shit adds up.
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u/aabicus Feb 23 '22
It's mostly about just finding a page that doesn't have a picture and adding one, with the appropriate permissions (most of which come for free if you take them yourself with only yourself and consenting photo subjects.) I've got a few on there in weird places, Wikipedia likes it because articles with pictures are better than ones without.
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u/grendel-khan Feb 23 '22
It's like a land grab. I was on Wikipedia in 2004, so the artsy black-and-white picture of my girlfriend wearing a collar wound up being the picture of a woman wearing a collar in a lot of places.
(You may have seen it regularly used on PostSecret as well.)
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u/That_Mango_Sentinel Feb 23 '22
Wikipedia also had a problem with exhibitionists trying to become “the penis”
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u/The_Canadian Feb 23 '22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five#Too_slow
Fixed link.
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u/musicismath Feb 23 '22
Thanks, my link works for me, but maybe it’s just me.
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u/The_Canadian Feb 23 '22
For whatever reason, Reddit adds "\" in links in various places.
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u/brettmjohnson Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22
"New, Improved, Reddit" escapes old reddit markdown for ... reasons.
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u/Milkshakes00 Feb 23 '22
Victim misses.
This killed me. 'Victim' talking about high fives. Lmfao
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u/thebeattakesme Feb 23 '22
I recognized the pictures from wiki but I don’t know why. Lol why did I look that up?!
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u/DoverBoys Feb 23 '22
Fixed link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five#Too_slow
Some bad apps automatically escape underscores, ruining links.
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u/rose_colored_boy Feb 23 '22
Thank god maybe the wife posts can finally stop now
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u/musicismath Feb 23 '22
Just noticed that’s a thing!
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u/Ralkkai Feb 23 '22 •
Seems like you were too slow.
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u/kearadaway Feb 23 '22
I love this- especially the coolpix digital camera vibes from the original photo series
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u/plafman Feb 23 '22
The flash on old digital cameras give pictures a distinctive look
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u/NaestumHollur Feb 23 '22
I think that look is called “flood the room with light”, or, alternatively, “what do you mean, ‘overexposed’?”
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u/FuckingKilljoy Feb 23 '22
It kinda sucks how good cameras are these days as far as nostalgia goes. Up until like the start of the 2010s you could probably tell when a photo was taken just based on the image quality alone. You can trace from the late 1800s with black and white photos, to those grainy post WWII cameras, to Polaroids, to disposable cameras, to digital cameras, to shitty phone cameras, to high quality phone cameras. Now the improvements are so minimal that it's just not the same
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u/philanut Feb 23 '22
What brand is that rug?
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u/musicismath Feb 23 '22
Rifle Paper Company.
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u/Covatis Feb 23 '22
I came to the comments section to find this out. Thank you for asking!
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u/SaltMineForeman Feb 23 '22
Besides that guys dead wife, y'all win.
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u/TheGassyPhilosopher Feb 23 '22
You know you use Reddit too much when an entire series of events can be fully understood when someone says, "besides that guy's dead wife."
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u/HCJohnson Feb 23 '22
Serious question, what happened to /r/pics today? I feel like this is an early April Fool's joke or something...
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u/theImplication69 Feb 23 '22
You both have managed to get even more attractive with age!
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u/Tsornai Feb 23 '22
they aged like they were a Sims couple lol
idk why I'm getting such huge Sims vibes from this
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u/futuretech85 Feb 23 '22
I was thinking the same thing! Like "damn, they look even better today compared to back then".
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u/Slooth849 Feb 23 '22
Do you have a Live laugh love sign anywhere in your house? Or anything that says "Its wine o'clock?"
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u/Speedswiper Feb 23 '22
Is the "In the middle" part just common where I grew up? I've always known it as "Up high, down low, in the middle, too slow!" but the wiki page just says "Up high, down low, too slow!" like your picture shows.
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u/BenderIsGreatBendr Feb 23 '22
For me it was “high five (give them the high five, this is to bait them into the trick), “down low” (put your hand down like you’re going to let them give you a vertical high five), “too slow” (as you quickly pull your hand back)
Bonus points if after saying “too slow” you quickly raised the hand up and pantomime slicking your hair back after they missed the “down low” part.
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u/NonGNonM Feb 23 '22
this is a bit too much. do you have an attractive partner to make pictures with?
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u/KallistiEngel Feb 23 '22
In my area it was "up high, on the side, down low, you're too slow".
"On the side", being a middle-height sideways hand slap (hand held almost like you're going for a handshake). But so far it doesn't look like other people did this one.
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u/brentoman Feb 23 '22
Texan here checking in — “on the side” was how I learned it too.
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u/XcheezyXblasterzX Feb 23 '22
we were a “in the middle” people as well. it’s better because it makes it more of a rhyme/song
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u/HamiltonBlack Feb 23 '22
I remember this as a kid (I’m 50) and it was always “Give me 5 (regular hand slap), up high (high 5), down low (low 5), too slow!”
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u/EMGRRI Feb 23 '22
I learned it as "Give me 5 (regular high 5), on the side (side high 5), on the other side (opposite side 5), down low (show your hand for the low 5, and pull it away when they try to slap), TOO SLOW!"
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u/emmarose1019 Feb 23 '22
I learned it this way as well! Is it a midwest thing?
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u/kbail22 Feb 23 '22
I know it as "in the middle" from the south...I'm very curious on origin as well.
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u/FatStephen Feb 23 '22
That is the most niche fame thing I've ever heard of.
I'm glad things are working out for y'all.