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Talk about inferential distance; for some reason it didn't even occur to me that people might not know their names (whereas I did think long and hard before going with that as my only example). I'll edit the pictures to include the names (tomorrow).
Seriously? I see these damned horses for the first time in life. Not only I don't know their names, but it is hard to distinguish them visually. And I put quite a big probability on the hypothesis that 95% of people whom I personally know are unfamiliar with this as well.
Couldn't you go with apple, pizza, bicycle, broken watch, pen, or whatever sort of items whose names are known? It would perhaps be too ordinary, but your present choice really makes it harder.
I didn't know them either, but this post was one of the last straws that broke the back of my resistance made me start watching the series.
(It's good, by the way!)