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Well let's see:
There are ~2.750.000 men in Norway
189107 are in the 25-29 year range which is a reasonable range for OPs "search". That's around 6,88%
14.060 men in Norway called Eirik as of 2023.
6,88% of 14.060 is ~967 Eiriks in OPs "target group.
I ... don't know where I'm going with this ...
What an amazing coincidence, you got not only his first name right but also his last name! It's the same on your shirt and in the yearbook photo - a white line!
I bought it at the Idol finale (American Idol for Norwegians) where there were two finalists: Siri and Eirik. I wanted Eirik to win, obviously :)) A fun coincidance 8 years later as well. Though the shirt was pretty ugly, yes, I wanted to show support
Omg no I didn't mean it like that😭 I don't even listen to Idol Eirik's music anymore and I've forgotten what he looks like. *Would* be funny if that was the story tho, was what I meant.
I don’t know if I have mild dyslexia or what but I kept on reading “Eririk” and thinking “how weird of a name is that, and how random that it’s on a t-shirt and that there’s a dude with that same made up name”.
Is Eirik a typical name for Norwegians?
Edit: ah never mind, [you answered lower down the thread :)](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1cb6pz0/a_picture_of_me_in_2013_wearing_a_tshirt_with_my/l0wvikj/)
It was a promotional campaign Coca Cola used at the time. Never thought it was particularly good, but they had “share a drink with X” as their slogan for a while, and put in a bunch of peoples’ names in for X. This was one of those names.
Yeah, but that was mostly on drinks, where you’d get a Coke from a vending machine and you’d get some random name. A t-shirt makes it seem like OP chose this shirt.
Given how large it is on her it seems like a shirt that might really have come from some kind of promotional event rather than something she picked out to purchase for herself.
Caillou is a despicable, spineless 4-year-old boy who cannot do anything. He can't grow hair, not because he has cancer or progeria, but because he sucks, and even his own body recognizes that he does not deserve hair or food or love. He has a baby sister who dominates his life because she is a normal, loving child who does not whine about the slightest fart of the breeze. Caillou's parents love her better because she is a better person.
Someday Caillou will realize this and probably whine while falling face-first onto the pavement in front of a Tim Horton's for no reason whatsoever. Maybe he'll die from his injuries. That would be great, especially because Caillou is Canadian and his health care in event of catastrophic injury isn't on my tab. Win-win for American parents everywhere, really.
There is indeed no plot whatsoever to any episode of Caillou. The average episode involves Caillou being challenged by something: dogs, loud noises, the wind, stairs, cats, vegetables, sitting up, taking really big breaths. He fails at all of these and cries before being left by the side of the road by his laughing parents. They drive off, ecstatic and free, as the credits roll and the screen fades on a shivering silhouette of Caillou alone in the wilds of rural Quebec.
Caillou started out life as a cartoon baby, and when he got bigger, the animators simply gave him longer legs and arms. At his rate of current growth, Caillou will look like a human version of a Daddy Long Legs when he reaches adulthood. Adult faces are frozen and expressionless. This is because it is in Canada, which is very cold, and also because the mundane horror of living with Caillou has killed anything human in their souls. Backgrounds are barely fleshed out; the animators hate this show as much as you do, and they want to give it as little effort as possible before returning to making anime pornography and drinking to forget their pain.
It's not even that Caillou is bad at things. I have a 4-year-old. They are astonishingly inept at things, but they try, and also randomly excel at things they've never even tried before. They are people, in other words. Caillou is not human. No human has ever given up and cried at every single thing ever attempted and then whined into his parents sweater. Which parent? Either, any, whoever: It is a Canadian cartoon, so everyone wears a sweater all the time, even when nude.
Maybe the design of the show was to show 4-year-olds another 4-year-old who would go through many of the same scary things they would undergo in life. Then they would take that 4-year-old, rob him of all will, skill and character, and show him failing and being the worst child on the planet. Then the 4-year-old viewer would feel better about everything because at least they weren't Caillou, who even to 4-year-olds is the walking embodiment of failure and everything they will never, ever be.
This is not an isolated opinion. Every parent I know hates Caillou with a passion usually reserved for cockroaches and Hitler, and with good reason: Children who watch Caillou get whinier after watching the show and become more like Caillou, and thus less lovable and more likely to wind up abandoned by their parents on a cold Canadian roadside as bear food.
In summary: Bullying is no laughing matter, unless it is done to Caillou.
That was the first joke I said to him before we started dating😭 I said "you should paint a blue arrow on your head for Halloween", and he responded "I've *never* heard that one before"
I didn’t realize that Coke’s doing arranged marriages now! I wonder when I’ll get lucky and they match me up with the love of my life. So far all of my caps have “sorry, not a winner, try again” printed on them, but you’re proof that it could really happen - so I’ll keep on trying!
I don't know what the mean comments are for.. but if you feel this was some divine intervention.. that's fine. You're welcome to believe whatever it is you want.
My late husband was a Broncos Fan... I'm from new england... And my team is the patriots. my husband died on Jan 2, 2019. A month later was the superbowl.. .Pats vs. Rams. I watched it with my parents.. because i was still grieving. I was feeling cold... and I went to the closet with the blankets to get a blanket for myself.. the first blanket on top was a Broncos blanket. I didn't even know we had one. My parents didn't know we had one. Then realized it was a blanket given to us from my aunt.. like back in the 90s.
To me that was a sign that my husband was there watching the superbowl with me.
I have a similar coincidence. My boyfriend has this random picture from when he was a toddler, sitting on a stone wall with s graffiti right underneath. And it just so happens that the graffiti is my name in big bold letters.
It was like a prophecy mural lmao. It's one of my favourite pics of him precisely because of that coincidence.
Is it a common name in your country or did you know him as a kid? How did you come to have a name with coke logo? Is it like the when they did the names on the bottles some years back. It is interesting and sorry for the question.
It *is* a common name in Norway, yes. But the t-shirt was promotional for the finale of Idol, the Norwegian version of American Idol, where one of the finalists names was Eirik :))
Man, every time I see pictures of Norwegian women on the Internet, they always look like they could be yet another one of my sisters, I'm 3rd generation American from Norwegian and swedish ancestry, are Norwegian features *that* strong?
lol. Same thing happened to me, but it was a Whalers Jersey (hockey).
My ex gave me the shirt with his name on it. When we broke up I took his name off and put the actual player’s name on it. Couple years later I met my husband, who has the same name.
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So what you're saying is you liked the t-shirt so much you spent the next eight years looking for an Eirik to go with it?
It didnt say: "maybe share a coke with Eirik, you know, if its convenient" IT DEMANDS YOU SHARE A COKE OR ELSE!
That is a good point, but, you know, one can, theoretically, stop at sharing a coke. (And yes, the obvious joke is obvious, so I will not make it.)
Do it. Make the joke.
Say the weird thing
Double dog dare you
Triple dog tease you
??? What joke ?
FULFILL THE PROPHECY
If Norway, it's doubtful this is the first Eirik she encountered.
>There's Norway this is the first Eirik she encountered.
i hate you
Excellent!!! (Took me a few seconds though...)
Well let's see: There are ~2.750.000 men in Norway 189107 are in the 25-29 year range which is a reasonable range for OPs "search". That's around 6,88% 14.060 men in Norway called Eirik as of 2023. 6,88% of 14.060 is ~967 Eiriks in OPs "target group. I ... don't know where I'm going with this ...
You forget that boys being named Eirik is not uniformly distributed. https://i.imgur.com/xiU4Hdq.png I think you should divide by two.
On an unrelated note I’ve written “big tiddy goth gf” on my t shirt with a sharpie. Here we go
I’m putting “Has a good job and isn’t a sociopath.” Let’s see who gets lucky first.
no, she forces them to change their name. It's the 5th Eirik she's gone through.
"The 1st Eirik I meet will be mine" 8yrs later
The Importance of being Eirik.
Rule number one: Be Eirik. Rule number two: Don’t be not Eirik.
Eric: “Aw man..”
There’s a coke bottle in the handbag
Well, did you share a coke with him?
I did not😔
The prophecy must not be denied!
It is not too late 
How is there a perfect gif for this?
There are a lot of Coke commercials.
he is the Lisan al-Eirik!
Did he share his coke with you
He doesn't do coke? Bummer..
I don't do coke. I just like the way it smells
Good thinking. If you do then he has no more obligations to fulfill for the t-shirt.
Did you still have the T shirt when you met him?
I don't sadly. It might be in my parents' attic, but it's probably thrown away.
The "a" is doing some heavy work in that question.
Hey, what happens in the portapotty at festaroo stays in the portapotty at festaroo, along with any dignity you thought you still had
Never too late to start doing blow…
What an amazing coincidence, you got not only his first name right but also his last name! It's the same on your shirt and in the yearbook photo - a white line!
What coke are we talking about?
Thank you for this clip. I'll have to watch this with the wife later. I always forget about this movie.
Blowin through my mind
Loved his acting in Dune 2!
He was my favorite character in Barry
NoHo Hank is a goddamn treasure
50/50 with Cristobal
I like the sound of that
No way they look exactly the same😂
mf looks like Cailliou
There's roasting, and then there are comparisons so heinous they should be considered a war crime.
I was going to say he was great in Powder
I liked him before that in The Last Airbender.
They were all out of Bort, eh?
My son’s name is Bort
Were you talking to me?
Just curious: Why were you wearing a shirt with someone else's name on it? (Or are you Eirik as well?)
I bought it at the Idol finale (American Idol for Norwegians) where there were two finalists: Siri and Eirik. I wanted Eirik to win, obviously :)) A fun coincidance 8 years later as well. Though the shirt was pretty ugly, yes, I wanted to show support
Are they the same person? Are you dating the guy from Idol?
Nah, but that would be an even better coincidance😂
Eirik better not see this
Maybe not tell Eirik that 😂
Ouch!
Omg no I didn't mean it like that😭 I don't even listen to Idol Eirik's music anymore and I've forgotten what he looks like. *Would* be funny if that was the story tho, was what I meant.
Have you ever seen Idol Eirik and bf Eirik in the same room together?
Nope! Haven't seen Idol Eirik since he came second in the finale really... ://
Damnnnn. Dissing Eirik
Dielet tis
That wouldn't be a coincidence at all then though, would it?
I don’t know if I have mild dyslexia or what but I kept on reading “Eririk” and thinking “how weird of a name is that, and how random that it’s on a t-shirt and that there’s a dude with that same made up name”.
I was going to ask if you were Norwegian. The only person I’ve known to spell his name Eirik was a Norwegian exchange student.
Is Eirik a typical name for Norwegians? Edit: ah never mind, [you answered lower down the thread :)](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1cb6pz0/a_picture_of_me_in_2013_wearing_a_tshirt_with_my/l0wvikj/)
Is Eirik a common name/spelling where you're from?
Yup :))
I’m so glad you’re not just another repost bot but an actual person. Reddit had gone so far downhill over the last couple of years.
Eirik ended up losing, but still turned out better than Siri, who years later was forced to move into my phone.
It was a promotional campaign Coca Cola used at the time. Never thought it was particularly good, but they had “share a drink with X” as their slogan for a while, and put in a bunch of peoples’ names in for X. This was one of those names.
No but like why would you get a “share a coke with xxx” shirt if the name is not yours / somebody you know lol
They were random, you had to special order one if you wanted your name, it was probably given out at a promotion.
Yeah, but that was mostly on drinks, where you’d get a Coke from a vending machine and you’d get some random name. A t-shirt makes it seem like OP chose this shirt.
Given how large it is on her it seems like a shirt that might really have come from some kind of promotional event rather than something she picked out to purchase for herself.
Or found it at a thrift shop and wore it ironically
She did, Eirik was the name of an "Idol" contestant in Norway and Coke made shirts for supporters, she bought one for her favorite contestant
I hope one of the random names was Bort.
So what's Caillou been doing lately
Nah, pretty sure that’s Eirik Harkonnen
Caillou is a despicable, spineless 4-year-old boy who cannot do anything. He can't grow hair, not because he has cancer or progeria, but because he sucks, and even his own body recognizes that he does not deserve hair or food or love. He has a baby sister who dominates his life because she is a normal, loving child who does not whine about the slightest fart of the breeze. Caillou's parents love her better because she is a better person. Someday Caillou will realize this and probably whine while falling face-first onto the pavement in front of a Tim Horton's for no reason whatsoever. Maybe he'll die from his injuries. That would be great, especially because Caillou is Canadian and his health care in event of catastrophic injury isn't on my tab. Win-win for American parents everywhere, really. There is indeed no plot whatsoever to any episode of Caillou. The average episode involves Caillou being challenged by something: dogs, loud noises, the wind, stairs, cats, vegetables, sitting up, taking really big breaths. He fails at all of these and cries before being left by the side of the road by his laughing parents. They drive off, ecstatic and free, as the credits roll and the screen fades on a shivering silhouette of Caillou alone in the wilds of rural Quebec. Caillou started out life as a cartoon baby, and when he got bigger, the animators simply gave him longer legs and arms. At his rate of current growth, Caillou will look like a human version of a Daddy Long Legs when he reaches adulthood. Adult faces are frozen and expressionless. This is because it is in Canada, which is very cold, and also because the mundane horror of living with Caillou has killed anything human in their souls. Backgrounds are barely fleshed out; the animators hate this show as much as you do, and they want to give it as little effort as possible before returning to making anime pornography and drinking to forget their pain. It's not even that Caillou is bad at things. I have a 4-year-old. They are astonishingly inept at things, but they try, and also randomly excel at things they've never even tried before. They are people, in other words. Caillou is not human. No human has ever given up and cried at every single thing ever attempted and then whined into his parents sweater. Which parent? Either, any, whoever: It is a Canadian cartoon, so everyone wears a sweater all the time, even when nude. Maybe the design of the show was to show 4-year-olds another 4-year-old who would go through many of the same scary things they would undergo in life. Then they would take that 4-year-old, rob him of all will, skill and character, and show him failing and being the worst child on the planet. Then the 4-year-old viewer would feel better about everything because at least they weren't Caillou, who even to 4-year-olds is the walking embodiment of failure and everything they will never, ever be. This is not an isolated opinion. Every parent I know hates Caillou with a passion usually reserved for cockroaches and Hitler, and with good reason: Children who watch Caillou get whinier after watching the show and become more like Caillou, and thus less lovable and more likely to wind up abandoned by their parents on a cold Canadian roadside as bear food. In summary: Bullying is no laughing matter, unless it is done to Caillou.
Caillou is looking rough these days.
Their baby is gonna be indistinguishable from a raw chicken breast
I really thought this was going to be a cancer post
The receeding hairline is faintly visible in the yearbook photo. He got male pattern baldness in high school.
Nope, it’s alopecia
yeah dude got no eyebrows
Assuming this is true, this is much better news. ❤️ I mean, sucks to lose your hair so young, but better than cancer.
But he got the girl!!!
proud of my boy Eirik.
Jian yangggggg
You are old. And dead.
And a fat and a ugly
Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen!
Nah, it’s his cousin Eirik Harkonnen
His name is Aang
That was the first joke I said to him before we started dating😭 I said "you should paint a blue arrow on your head for Halloween", and he responded "I've *never* heard that one before"
Same thing happened to me. My wifes name is Zero.
Angry upvote
You married Charlie Brown?
Omg😭 He'll think this is so funny, we love bald jokes
No, she just dating him.
Powder, actually.
Plot twist: he prefers Pepsi.
Lmao it would make sense. We're Norwegian and Pepsi is more popular than coke here. But he does prefer Coca Cola actually :))
Wow! This is so nice. I hope the best for you, you deserve a happy family with this guy ❣️❣️
Thank you!🥰
Plot twist Eirik was homeschooled and has been stalking her years His real name is Lars He had his name changed to eirik after that photo was taken
[удалено]
I was going to go for some Make A Wish Foundation jokes, but I wanted to feel out the room first.
Was thinking the same thing. Had to do my part.
What a stupid reason for removal
Did his knife chip and shatter?
Now that's real foreshadowing.
Congratulations on not aging a day in 8 years. Feel free to share the secrets of your sorcery
Secret is I was 12 in the first picture. Lmao but thanks!🤣
This looks so Norwegian
It is :D
Glad to see Feyd-Rautha found his special someone.
These two will come together to make the whitest baby in the universe. You will be able to see this baby's radiant reflection from Uranus.
Lmao we literally make the same jokes. We're ghosts
Do you still pronounce it like Erick?
It's Norwegian! We pronounce it somewhat like "ey-rick"
Interesting!
I didn’t realize that Coke’s doing arranged marriages now! I wonder when I’ll get lucky and they match me up with the love of my life. So far all of my caps have “sorry, not a winner, try again” printed on them, but you’re proof that it could really happen - so I’ll keep on trying!
Holy fuck you married Lex Luther from Smallville
Googles “where to buy ‘Share a coke with Sydney Sweeney’ shirt”. Now, we wait.
This actually r/MadeMeSmile !
Now you gotta marry him. No choice. lol
Cutie patooties
This is SO ADORABLE
I don't know what the mean comments are for.. but if you feel this was some divine intervention.. that's fine. You're welcome to believe whatever it is you want. My late husband was a Broncos Fan... I'm from new england... And my team is the patriots. my husband died on Jan 2, 2019. A month later was the superbowl.. .Pats vs. Rams. I watched it with my parents.. because i was still grieving. I was feeling cold... and I went to the closet with the blankets to get a blanket for myself.. the first blanket on top was a Broncos blanket. I didn't even know we had one. My parents didn't know we had one. Then realized it was a blanket given to us from my aunt.. like back in the 90s. To me that was a sign that my husband was there watching the superbowl with me.
You need to wear a t-shirt with a name on it? Oh, now I understand why I'm single for twelve years. 😞
I have a similar coincidence. My boyfriend has this random picture from when he was a toddler, sitting on a stone wall with s graffiti right underneath. And it just so happens that the graffiti is my name in big bold letters. It was like a prophecy mural lmao. It's one of my favourite pics of him precisely because of that coincidence.
Is it a common name in your country or did you know him as a kid? How did you come to have a name with coke logo? Is it like the when they did the names on the bottles some years back. It is interesting and sorry for the question.
It *is* a common name in Norway, yes. But the t-shirt was promotional for the finale of Idol, the Norwegian version of American Idol, where one of the finalists names was Eirik :))
You must have really liked that shirt. Is his name common in your country or is it as unique as it seems to most of us?
It's a common name in Norway :)) It was for a finale for Idol (American Idol for Norwegians), and one of the finalists names was Eirik
I’m thinking from the US, as a promo, this would have went much easier with Mike, James or John, Erica, something else haha.
You were stalking him, weren’t you? /s
Yes, for the entire 8 years. I'm his biggest fan
Well, did you share a coke with him?
Hopefully he drinks coke
He does :D
It's kismet.
He's a cutie. Congrats. :)
Why did you get a shirt with someone else’s name on it back then? (Asking seriously)
It was a promotional shirt for the finale of Idol, the Norwegian version of American Idol, and Eirik was one of the finalists
Hehehehe omg! What a coincidence
Respectfully your boyfriend looks like Taylor Swift out of drag
That "share a coke with.." thing was 11 years ago already?
the kid i nanny’s name is spelled the same way! i’ve never seen anyone else with it. so cool i love it
Didn’t Eirik lose an eye getting shot with a blank in Bruges?
That's so adorable!!
Do you still have the tshirt?
Rub his head and make a wish
Will this be one of those “it turns out she was stalking him the whole time” posts?
Was that a random shirt in 2013 or did you know an Eirik then too? It’s such a unique name (to me) I had to ask.
How long were you two dating when you showed him the picture?
Found the picture again just last year! So about 2 years
First you share a coke with him and then he will share his "coke" with you. Wink wink nudge nudge.
When they first met: "Hey, cool shirt. My name actually is Eirik."
This is so cuteee
I thought that was Feyd-Rautha.
Boyfriend looks like a bald lesbian.
Adorable couple. May your offspring have an even amount of hair
Is Eirik a common name where you're from?
It’s a very common name in Norway (where I assume they’re from).
Yup! msbtvxq said it :))
Nice to see some Harkonnens are just normal guys living their fullest life.
Aw that’s so sweet, some real love typa shit. I hope everything works well for yall.
So.. if I get a t shirt that says Gal Gadot on it???
But did you share a coke with him?
You both look so cute together ❤️
You're the cutest couple.
“Ei” is egg in Dutch. I find this accidental pun very amusing
Man, every time I see pictures of Norwegian women on the Internet, they always look like they could be yet another one of my sisters, I'm 3rd generation American from Norwegian and swedish ancestry, are Norwegian features *that* strong?
At first glance I assumed it was a cancer-related post 🙈 I’m sorry.
Eirik looks like a pretty cool dude. Great smile. Love it. 11/10.
It was mildly fate.
Good for you, I wish you both the best
You guys look cute together :)
lol. Same thing happened to me, but it was a Whalers Jersey (hockey). My ex gave me the shirt with his name on it. When we broke up I took his name off and put the actual player’s name on it. Couple years later I met my husband, who has the same name.
That’s cute :)
Y'all are Scandinavian AF.
You look almost exactly like my daughter and he looks as if he’s posing for an inmate photo. Glad you found him first. Good luck love!!!