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Hmmm.... just as every new president of the Seamstresses Guild receives the honorific "mrs", could it be that the Guild enforcers receive the title "Auntie" in return for services rendered - that "Agony Aunt" is not so much an individual as a title, and the mantle is passed on to a new generation of Guild enforcer coming up the ranks, owing to death or retirement... this might explain why a woman who is a spry seventy in Snapcase's time is still healthy and seemingly doing the same job thirty years on.--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 20:12, 29 April 2007 (CEST) | Hmmm.... just as every new president of the Seamstresses Guild receives the honorific "mrs", could it be that the Guild enforcers receive the title "Auntie" in return for services rendered - that "Agony Aunt" is not so much an individual as a title, and the mantle is passed on to a new generation of Guild enforcer coming up the ranks, owing to death or retirement... this might explain why a woman who is a spry seventy in Snapcase's time is still healthy and seemingly doing the same job thirty years on.--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 20:12, 29 April 2007 (CEST) | ||
== Significance of names == | |||
One is inclined to wonder about the significance of their names, which I have not found anywhere to be pondered website. | |||
Sadie is similar enough to the word "sadism" to be an "obvious" choice. | |||
Dotsie is not as clear. could this be a play on "Dot C", that is, {{wp|Dot Cotton|Dot Cotton}}? Reaching, I know. --[[User:Lias Bluestone|Lias Bluestone]] ([[User talk:Lias Bluestone|talk]]) 17:59, 27 March 2019 (UTC) | |||
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Hmmm.... just as every new president of the Seamstresses Guild receives the honorific "mrs", could it be that the Guild enforcers receive the title "Auntie" in return for services rendered - that "Agony Aunt" is not so much an individual as a title, and the mantle is passed on to a new generation of Guild enforcer coming up the ranks, owing to death or retirement... this might explain why a woman who is a spry seventy in Snapcase's time is still healthy and seemingly doing the same job thirty years on.--AgProv 20:12, 29 April 2007 (CEST)
Significance of names
One is inclined to wonder about the significance of their names, which I have not found anywhere to be pondered website.
Sadie is similar enough to the word "sadism" to be an "obvious" choice.
Dotsie is not as clear. could this be a play on "Dot C", that is, Dot Cotton? Reaching, I know. --Lias Bluestone (talk) 17:59, 27 March 2019 (UTC)