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Hi, Eric here with a quick thought about your website explainxkcd.com...
| number    = 2393
 
| date      = December 2, 2020
 
| title    = Presidential Middle Names
 
| image    = presidential_middle_names.png
 
| titletext = The bottom of the list remains unchanged. Poor Rutherford Birchard Hayes.
 
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==Explanation==
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I’m on the internet a lot and I look at a lot of business websites.
A list of what Randall perceives will be the prettiest presidential {{w|middle names}} after the inauguration on January 20, 2021. {{w|Joe Biden|Joe Robinette Biden}} (46th president-elect) will take the second slot bumping previous second-place holder {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Delano Roosevelt}}, the 32nd president, back to third. {{w|Warren G. Harding|Warren Gamaliel Harding}}, the 29th president, remains in first. Robinette is Biden's [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2008/08/joe_bidens_middle_name_is_robi.html grandmother's maiden name].
 
  
The title text announces that {{w|Rutherford B. Hayes|Rutherford Birchard Hayes}}, the 19th president, remains at or near the bottom.  
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Like yours, many of them have great content.  
  
Overall, the ranking would not include every president, as many early presidents, such as {{w|George Washington}} and {{w|John Adams}}, lacked middle names. Some presidents were also more commonly known by their middle names as opposed to their first names, particularly John {{w|Calvin Coolidge}}, Stephen {{w|Grover Cleveland}}, Hiram {{w|Ulysses Grant}}, and Thomas {{w|Woodrow Wilson}}. Grant additionally acquired a spurious "middle" initial S, hence, ''Ulysses S. Grant''. There is no evidence in the comic for how Randall’s list would deal with these cases.
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But all too often, they come up short when it comes to engaging and connecting with anyone who visits.
  
The humor is based on the sheer oddity of ranking people by the perceived prettiness of their obscure middle names.
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I get it – it’s hard.  Studies show 7 out of 10 people who land on a site, abandon it in moments without leaving even a trace.  You got the eyeball, but nothing else.
  
== Trivia ==
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Here’s a solution for you…
  
{{w|Raphael Warnock|Raphael Gamaliel Warnock}} became a U.S. Senator in January 2021, a hundred years and a week after former president Warren Gamaliel Harding left the Senate. Randall’s favourite presidential middle name is thus once again represented in government.
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==List of Presidents with middle names==
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(updated for 2021, as the comic)
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|+ (Ordered by middle name)
 
! President
 
! Presidential order
 
|-
 
|James ABRAM Garfield
 
|20
 
|-
 
|Chester ALAN Arthur
 
|21
 
|-
 
|Lyndon BAINES Johnson
 
|36
 
|-
 
|Rutherford BIRCHARD Hayes
 
|19
 
|-
 
|John CALVIN Coolidge
 
|30
 
|-
 
|Herbert CLARK Hoover
 
|31
 
|-
 
|Dwight DAVID Eisenhower
 
|34
 
|-
 
|Franklin DELANO Roosevelt
 
|32
 
|-
 
|James EARL Carter
 
|39
 
|-
 
|John FITZGERALD Kennedy
 
|35
 
|-
 
|Warren GAMALIEL Harding
 
|29
 
|-
 
|Stephen GROVER Cleveland
 
|22, 24
 
|-
 
|William HENRY Harrison
 
|9
 
|-
 
|George HERBERT WALKER Bush
 
|41
 
|-
 
|William HOWARD Taft
 
|27
 
|-
 
|Barack HUSSEIN Obama
 
|44
 
|-
 
|William JEFFERSON Clinton
 
|42
 
|-
 
|Donald JOHN Trump
 
|45
 
|-
 
|James KNOX Polk
 
|11
 
|-
 
|Richard MILHOUS Nixon
 
|37
 
|-
 
|John QUINCY Adams
 
|6
 
|-
 
|Joe ROBINETTE Biden
 
|46
 
|-
 
|Gerald RUDOLPH Ford
 
|38
 
|-
 
|Harry S. Truman
 
|33
 
|-
 
|Hiram ULYSSES Grant
 
|18
 
|-
 
|George WALKER Bush
 
|43
 
|-
 
|Ronald WILSON Reagan
 
|40
 
|-
 
|Thomas WOODROW Wilson
 
|28
 
|}
 
  
The Presidents without middle names — almost all of those before Grant, and a few a bit later — were George Washington, John Adams, {{w|Thomas Jefferson}}, {{w|James Madison}}, {{w|James Monroe}}, {{w|Andrew Jackson}}, {{w|Martin Van Buren}}, {{w|John Tyler}}, {{w|Zachary Taylor}}, {{w|Millard Fillmore}}, {{w|Franklin Pierce}}, {{w|James Buchanan}}, {{w|Abraham Lincoln}}, {{w|Andrew Johnson}}, {{w|Benjamin Harrison}}, {{w|William McKinley}}, and {{w|Theodore Roosevelt}}.
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==Transcript==
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:<big>Prettiest</big>
 
:Presidential Middle Names Official Rankings
 
:(Updated for 2021)
 
  
# Gamaliel (Warren Harding)
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#<span style="color:red">Robinette (Joe Biden) '''(NEW!)'''</span>
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#Delano (Franklin Roosevelt)<br>
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{{comic discussion}}
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Eric
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Revision as of 06:43, 21 February 2021

Hi, Eric here with a quick thought about your website explainxkcd.com...

I’m on the internet a lot and I look at a lot of business websites.

Like yours, many of them have great content.

But all too often, they come up short when it comes to engaging and connecting with anyone who visits.

I get it – it’s hard. Studies show 7 out of 10 people who land on a site, abandon it in moments without leaving even a trace. You got the eyeball, but nothing else.

Here’s a solution for you…

Talk With Web Visitor is a software widget that’s works on your site, ready to capture any visitor’s Name, Email address and Phone Number. You’ll know immediately they’re interested and you can call them directly to talk with them literally while they’re still on the web looking at your site.

CLICK HERE http://talkwithcustomer.com to try out a Live Demo with Talk With Web Visitor now to see exactly how it works.

It could be huge for your business – and because you’ve got that phone number, with our new SMS Text With Lead feature, you can automatically start a text (SMS) conversation – immediately… and contacting someone in that 5 minute window is 100 times more powerful than reaching out 30 minutes or more later.

Plus, with text messaging you can follow up later with new offers, content links, even just follow up notes to keep the conversation going.

Everything I’ve just described is extremely simple to implement, cost-effective, and profitable.

CLICK HERE http://talkwithcustomer.com to discover what Talk With Web Visitor can do for your business.

You could be converting up to 100X more eyeballs into leads today!

Eric PS: Talk With Web Visitor offers a FREE 14 days trial – and it even includes International Long Distance Calling. You have customers waiting to talk with you right now… don’t keep them waiting. CLICK HERE http://talkwithcustomer.com to try Talk With Web Visitor now.

If you'd like to unsubscribe click here http://talkwithcustomer.com/unsubscribe.aspx?d=explainxkcd.com