{"id":27289,"date":"2020-12-09T05:38:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27289"},"modified":"2020-12-09T05:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T11:38:53","slug":"the-unfortunate-acronyms-of-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/09\/the-unfortunate-acronyms-of-springfield\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unfortunate Acronyms of Springfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I took a picture of D&D Home Services in Nixa because I was thinking about doing a post about it:<\/p>\n

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I was going to go off onto a schtick about “What would Dungeons and Dragons Home Services include? Gelatinous cube whole house decluttering and dusting?” and so on.<\/p>\n

From the back seat, my oldest told us mentioned Wholesale Auto Paints<\/a>, whose logo and sign on Glenstone feature the unfortunate abbreviation WAP which shares the letters of but probably not the philosophy of the recent Cardi B song<\/a>. Well, he called it Warehouse Auto Paints, and it was I who explained the song to my beautiful wife, who was a bit aghast and termed it vulgar. I said it was the 2020 version of the oldie O.P.P.<\/a>, the 1991 song by Naughty By Nature, and she tried to defend the earlier song<\/em>, saying that it was musical. Mostly, though, I hold that one considers different things vulgar when one is 19 than when one is (does math) thirty-something. But it was an interesting moment nevertheless.<\/p>\n

I also mentioned Springfield Tool and Die, whose business stems from 1960<\/a> apparently. Its buildings are proudly emblazoned with STD, a term that would come to mean something entirely different in 1975, apparently<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which is why I was very careful, gentle reader, when coining and popularizing (well, coining<\/em> anyway) the abbreviation MfBJN for the name of this blog. Because if it’s ever going to mean something else, it is something that will still likely apply to me.<\/p>\n

Thank you, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I took a picture of D&D Home Services in Nixa because I was thinking about doing a post about it: I was going to go off onto a schtick about “What would Dungeons and Dragons Home Services include? Gelatinous cube whole house decluttering and dusting?” and so on. From the back seat, my oldest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27292,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289\/revisions\/27292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}