91茄子

Cartman loves Tinky Winky

Published on
February 16, 2001
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Characters from children's television programmes are the favourite pet names used between lovers, researchers have found.

This year, 91茄子r and Marge from the The Simpsons, Cartman from South Park and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have taken over from Mr Blobby, Squirrel Nutkin and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Julie Coleman, English language lecturer at Leicester University, has scoured thousands of newspaper personal columns. Her findings are contained in her book Love, Sex and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus .

A website selling personalised cards has been inundated with requests for current television characters' names to be used on Valentine's day greetings.

"It was only a matter of time before Tinky Winky and La La made it," Dr Coleman said.

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