No, Seraviel, it is most expressly not.
My use of "Buffy" in this sense has nothing at all to do with BTVS; I was not even thinking of the show when I wrote that. When I was in college, my freshman year, one of the fads of 1980-81 was The Official Preppy Handbook, and there was a small but noticeable fraction of actual preppies at Princeton. "Buffy" is one of the names long, long associated with female prepdom, and it is in that context that I used it.
Geeze, though, people. Talk about your small reference pools. Buffy Summers isn't even the first TV character with that name (there have been at least two others that I know of), and it's a common enough nickname for girls named Elizabeth. (It comes from a childish mispronunciation.) Just because the only Buffy you've ever heard of comes from that show doesn't mandate that every use you hear derives from it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
My use of "Buffy" in this sense has nothing at all to do with BTVS; I was not even thinking of the show when I wrote that. When I was in college, my freshman year, one of the fads of 1980-81 was The Official Preppy Handbook, and there was a small but noticeable fraction of actual preppies at Princeton. "Buffy" is one of the names long, long associated with female prepdom, and it is in that context that I used it.
Geeze, though, people. Talk about your small reference pools. Buffy Summers isn't even the first TV character with that name (there have been at least two others that I know of), and it's a common enough nickname for girls named Elizabeth. (It comes from a childish mispronunciation.) Just because the only Buffy you've ever heard of comes from that show doesn't mandate that every use you hear derives from it.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.