Not P but Who is Walton?

[Mark Kohut]

The show's end sequence featured the family saying goodnight to one another
before drifting off to sleep, and according to the BBC
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC> (which also aired the series)
"Goodnight, John-Boy" was one of the most common catchphrases
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchphrase> of the 1970s.[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waltons#cite_note-3>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waltons

Some of us, well probably only me, used to refer to Updike as John-Boy
Updike....all that artistic nostalgia for Shllington (Reading)

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 12:59 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From "Authority and American Usage":
>
> For one thing, whereas the traditional usage pundit cultivates a remote and
> imperial persona — the kind who uses one or we to refer to himself — Garner
> gives us an almost Waltonishly endearing sketch of his own background:
>
> Who is the Walton being referred to here?
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