{"id":576,"date":"2007-11-30T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T00:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/quick-vote-for-mister-splashy-pants\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T00:16:27","slug":"quick-vote-for-mister-splashy-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/quick-vote-for-mister-splashy-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick! Vote For Mister Splashy Pants!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/mistersplashypants.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Mister Splashy Pants wins the poll. \" \/>Today&#8217;s the last day to cast your vote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/campaigns\/oceans\/whaling\/great-whale-trail\/gwt-vote\" target=\"blank\">Greenpeace&#8217;s Whale Naming contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the various worthy names like Aiko and Manami is the stupendously funny Mister Splashy Pants. Which naturally I voted for. As did everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>At time of writing Mister Splashy Pants has 71% of the vote. I&#8217;m so looking forward to the press releases on this.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/11\/29\/2104802.htm\" target=\"blank\">this report<\/a>, &#8220;The popularity of the name has exploded, seven Facebook groups have been formed and T-Shirt and bumper stickers are for sale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit:<\/strong> Wait! It looks like Greenpeace has added another week to their competition, so you have until December 7 to vote. And <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/makingwaves\/archives\/2007\/11\/mr_splashy_pants_fan.html\" target=\"blank\">their blog reveals<\/a> that Mister Splashy Pants was given an early lead by a sneaky trickster who was able to overcome the &#8220;one click one vote&#8221; mechanism. Even with those votes disabled, however, Mister Splashy Pants is still in the lead.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the last day to cast your vote in Greenpeace&#8217;s Whale Naming contest. Amid the various worthy names like Aiko and Manami is the stupendously funny Mister Splashy Pants. Which naturally I voted for. As did everybody else. At time of writing Mister Splashy Pants has 71% of the vote. I&#8217;m so looking forward to the press releases on this. According to this report, &#8220;The popularity of the name has <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/30\/quick-vote-for-mister-splashy-pants\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[850],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quirky-weird-funny","tag-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}