{"id":5018,"date":"2010-03-11T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:11:14","slug":"the-most-ridiculous-thing-ive-heard-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5018","title":{"rendered":"The Most Ridiculous Thing I've Heard \u2026 Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad<\/a><\/p>\n

Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said the actress has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

“They used the name Lindsay,” Ovadia said. “They’re using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn’t they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody’s talking about it and saying it’s Lindsay Lohan.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, right. I’m barely aware of who Lindsay Lohan is, and I’m more than happy to testify that I did not think of her when I saw the commercial. I didn’t associate her with the commercial until now; besides, they said ‘milkaholic,’ not ‘attention whore.’<\/p>\n

A really funny thing is that because I’m a geek, and since Lindsay\/Lindsey is a fairly common name, I actually checked a baby-name database<\/a> (requires java to be enabled) and Lindsay and Lindsey are much more popular names than Susan these days and have been for a while now. As far as single-name recognition goes, Oprah doesn’t crack the top 1000 and Madonna never got used on more than a few dozen babies a year and dropped off the radar by the ’70s. i.e. those are recognized single names because the people a) have unusual names and are b) actually quite famous<\/p>\n

(As an aside, especially to Johnny Cash fans, if you check the stats for the names, you can restrict them to one gender or the other. There actually have been boys named Sue.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said the actress has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna. \u2026 “They used the name Lindsay,” Ovadia said. “They’re using her name as a parody of her … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}