Word Association
(^^^good for you. i don't watch it but that's exactly what i was thinking!! like sands through the hourglass......so are the days of our lives.....)
soap
soap
yadda, yadda, yadda!!!
The term "soap opera" was coined by the American press in the 1930s to denote the extraordinarily popular genre of serialized domestic radio dramas, which, by 1940, represented some 90% of all commercially-sponsored daytime broadcast hours. The "soap" in soap opera alluded to their sponsorship by manufacturers of household cleaning products; while "opera" suggested an ironic incongruity between the domestic narrative concerns of the daytime serial and the most elevated of dramatic forms.
The term "soap opera" was coined by the American press in the 1930s to denote the extraordinarily popular genre of serialized domestic radio dramas, which, by 1940, represented some 90% of all commercially-sponsored daytime broadcast hours. The "soap" in soap opera alluded to their sponsorship by manufacturers of household cleaning products; while "opera" suggested an ironic incongruity between the domestic narrative concerns of the daytime serial and the most elevated of dramatic forms.
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(and from what i know good old P&G started the whole Soap Opera thing to sell soap of course, and the first one I think which is the only one they still own the rights to is Days of Our Lives (I think, I kinda spaced out when my mom was telling me all this))
(and from what i know good old P&G started the whole Soap Opera thing to sell soap of course, and the first one I think which is the only one they still own the rights to is Days of Our Lives (I think, I kinda spaced out when my mom was telling me all this))


