Full Disclosure Follow-Up

I recently posted about other Sparkle Ponies on the web, and admitted that I pretty much stole the name for this blog from a post to an online chat with the Washington Post's Dan Froomkin.

Well, thanks to the mysterious emailer named "silence", who may or may not consider her/himself a Pony Pal™, I now know that the post in the Froomkin chat was itself inspired by earlier lefty/pinko/commie blogospherical phenomena. "silence" explains:

The first use of it on a political blog was on a locked feminism + Iraq convoy duty experience blog, where the blogger had a bad experience on an ebay auction, and wrote a long rant about the evil winner, whom she described as having a "name like PrincessSparklePony" and "unicorn and Orlando Bloom pictures all over her dorm room, assuming she's /that/ mature"

This in turn inspired bellatrys to write a rather different blog entry titled "Your Name is PrincessSparklePony": http://www.livejournal.com/users/bellatrys/2005/02/05/

These in turn inspired the question to Froomkin.

All this was really fascinating to hear, because it turns out that I've basically fallen victim to --and perpetuated-- a language virus, a careless behavior I previously criticized here and here.

Thanks for clearing the fog, silence!

Oh, and as long as we're on the subject of internet language viruses, can we all please stop shooting coffee/beer/Mountain Dew out of our noses now? I mean... ewwww.

EDIT: I keep thinking about how much I would LOVE to read a "locked feminism + Iraq convoy duty experience blog". Now there's a point-of-view a lot of Americans could benefit from.