Let the pointless etymology lesson COMMENCE!

Date: 2011-11-14 03:53 am (UTC)
To be honest I wasn't thinking of the name as an alias or pseudonym when I first came up with it; I actually created it about a year ago as an idea for a satirical comic strip to send to Private Eye (a satirical current affairs magazine) in the style of the Beano (a longrunning weekly children's comic full of a variety of strips over here) featuring the misadventures of a young mischievous upper class girl character 'Toffee the Snob' (the name Toffee being a play on both the insult 'toffee-nosed-twit' and how we refer to the upper classes as 'toffs' over here) in a similar manner to Beano characters. Toffee's upper class status was supposed to be humorously exaggerated to parody how Beano characters such as Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx have been downgraded from having white collar parents to blue collar parents in recent years to make them more 'common' and relatable. (One particular example is Dennis having a clear accent when he spoke in the 1996 animated series and yet now he and his family have distinct Yorkshire accents while Dennis's enemy, Walter the Softy has been made significantly posher as well as painted as a villain.) Another such reason for this emphasis of social class was to poke fun at how the government which is currently conservative (I'd say they resembled republicans with regards to US counterparts but I don't know enough about american politics to confirm this) and naturally composed of people who all went to private school and had privileged upbringings.

Of course I should note that I am NOT of a high ranking social class (I just speak as though I come from one) and do not associate myself with the character at all but I couldn't think of a username and that was the first thing that came into my head that the site accepted.

And with regards to toffee, it is usually referred to as just toffee over here, unless the manufacturer wants to promote the region it came from, for example 'Bristol Toffee'.
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