{"id":448,"date":"2008-04-07T17:46:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T23:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2008-05-03T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:46:42","slug":"who-are-all-these-tacky-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Who ARE all these tacky people?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loramir from CC brought up an interesting point: several characters in several soapy comic strips share the same name.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s a chance that we&#8217;re going to run out of &#8220;normal&#8221; names anytime soon.  And evidently there&#8217;s a trend, at least in the U.S., of giving companion animals &#8220;human names&#8221; rather than traditional names like Fido or Fluffy or Getthehelloffofthat.  I don&#8217;t know why&#8230;I asked a fellow who owned a dachshund, &#8220;Henry,&#8221; why he&#8217;d named the dog that:  &#8220;Because pet names are stupid.&#8221;  Okay.  For the record, I&#8217;ve also known a dachshund by the name of &#8220;Daniel,&#8221; so maybe it&#8217;s a thing with wiener dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is sort of a PSA\/field guide to some of the potentially-confusing character names in our favorite soaps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-rex-49.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-449\" title=\"not-rex-49\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-rex-49.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1150\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-rex-49.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/not-rex-49-250x52.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loramir from CC brought up an interesting point: several characters in several soapy comic strips share the same name. It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s a chance that we&#8217;re going to run out of &#8220;normal&#8221; names anytime soon. And evidently there&#8217;s a trend, at least in the U.S., of giving companion animals &#8220;human names&#8221; rather than traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judge-parker","category-psa","category-rex-morgan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}