Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

Back when I used to live in Wisconsin, I used to read the St. Paul paper every once in a while, mostly for their "bulletin board" column. It's basically a column of reader submissions...I don't know how to better explain it (online here, may require registration, bugmenot). Anyway, one of the regular categories there is something they call the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. I'm not really sure how they started calling it that, because I suspect it was before my time. (When I google Baader-Meinhof, I get a German terrorist group, so whatever.) Basically, a bulletin-board Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is when you encounter something for the first time in your life, and then see other references to it immediately thereafter.

The reason I mention this is that I just had a Baader-Meinhof experience with the Nalgene bottle.

It started with reading this post, with the tiny comment at the end about the dishwasher ruining her Nalgene cap. Of course, this got me wondering what a Nalgene bottle was, so I followed the link and was enlightened. Also...ooooh, shiny.

Then I went to FitJulie this morning, read about her water goal, and was surprised to see her mention owning "two Nalgenes". I went 31 years without hearing a single reference to a Nalgene bottle, and then twice in one day? It's gotta be fate or something.

So naturally, I must have one RIGHT NOW. Good thing there's an REI on my way home.