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Aug. 2, 2008 12:49 p.m. SVreX UltraDork

Datsun1500 wrote:

Orangejello and lemonjello is an urban legend...... Check snopes..... Unless they are still in school from when I heard it in 1985

OK, so I checked Snopes. Did you read it?? Their offense to the "legend" is the obvious association with racial stereotypes and education levels, however, they DO NOT identify it as false.

In fact, they reference a '70's era pitcher for the Huston Astros named Mark Lemongello.

Regardless, perhaps this is an example of life imitating art, and perhaps things have changed since 1985, but Snopes apparently did not check the public school records for Sumter County, GA. Those kids graduated just a couple of years ago.
Aug. 2, 2008 1:13 p.m. Datsun1500 HalfDork

And witha quick Google search we find these quotes.

, but I actually know a set of twins named Orangejello & Lemonjello. They were born in the late 80's in Kansas City (to a US born, English speaking mom) & I met them while they were newborns in the hospital.

....In addition, there's a Lemonjello (luh-MON-jeh-lo) Wright who's currently living in the state of North Carolina...

I remember several years ago my mother, a nurse at a childrens hospital, came home laughing hysterically. She told me of a hispanic couple that brought in their twin sons for surgery. The poor boys were in for years of teasing due to their very unusual names, Oranjello and Lemonjello.

About 6 years ago I was the manager in a retail store (Sea Dream Leather in Richmond, VA) . I am not kidding in the least when I tell you that 2 customers named Lemmonjello and Orannjello put in layaways while I worked there.

My social worker ex-mother-in-law swore she had Orangelo and Lemongelo as clients in rural Tennessee...

One of my really good friends said that Ornajello and Lemonjello were patients at Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit) while she was there.

Now you say they graduated in Georgia......

Urban Legend.
Aug. 2, 2008 2:22 p.m. poopshovel Dork

Aquafina. Now that's a purdy name. I'll cut my own nuts off with a spork if there aren't at least 100 girls named "Cialis."
Aug. 2, 2008 3:39 p.m. wlkelley3 Reader

A guy I used to work with told me once when his wife (a nurse) worked in delivery, someone named their daughter Clamydia because she liked the sound of it and didn't know what it meant.
Aug. 2, 2008 4:54 p.m. grtechguy SuperDork

a couple that goes to out church has a daughter named "Allegra"

I'm not joking
Aug. 2, 2008 5:24 p.m. NYG95GA Dork

Although my birth certificate says I'm Conrad Buchanan McNair, Junior, I've spent the last 53 years being called "Bucky", so I should likely refrain from throwing stones about names..
Aug. 2, 2008 5:27 p.m. gamby UltraDork

grtechguy wrote:

a couple that goes to out church has a daughter named "Allegra"

I'm not joking

Back in high school, I knew a girl named Allegra.

"Allegro" a musical term for "upbeat" or "happy". I think it's related to that.
Aug. 2, 2008 6:08 p.m. Jensenman UltimaDork

Then there was Frank Zappa. He named his daughter Moon Unit and his son Dweezil. Joan Rivers made fun of his kid's names on her show (when she had one) and he really busted her ass hard over that.

I used to date a girl whose proper (given) name was Sunshine. It was on her drivers' license.

And the poor guy in the Columbia, SC phone book named Richard Head. 'Dick' is the common nickname for 'Richard'.

My proper name is Michael. That damn Life Cereal commercial ('He likes it! Hey Mikey!') still follows me to this day.

Stig Schroeder. Ya know, that has a nice ring to it. No kidding, I like it.

He will still have to fight for his lunch money, though.
Aug. 2, 2008 8:44 p.m. Osterkraut Reader

Messed up parents, messed up kid.
Aug. 2, 2008 9:01 p.m. neon4891 Dork

My oldest sister has named her childern:

Hali, after Kelly Ripa's old soap character

John Micle, after his grand fathers(also suposedly OZZY's real name)

Sabatian, after Sabatian Bach of Skid Row
Aug. 3, 2008 6:33 a.m. SVreX UltraDork

Datsun1500 wrote:

And witha quick Google search we find these quotes.

, but I actually know a set of twins named Orangejello & Lemonjello. They were born in the late 80's in Kansas City (to a US born, English speaking mom) & I met them while they were newborns in the hospital.

....In addition, there's a Lemonjello (luh-MON-jeh-lo) Wright who's currently living in the state of North Carolina...

I remember several years ago my mother, a nurse at a childrens hospital, came home laughing hysterically. She told me of a hispanic couple that brought in their twin sons for surgery. The poor boys were in for years of teasing due to their very unusual names, Oranjello and Lemonjello.

About 6 years ago I was the manager in a retail store (Sea Dream Leather in Richmond, VA) . I am not kidding in the least when I tell you that 2 customers named Lemmonjello and Orannjello put in layaways while I worked there.

My social worker ex-mother-in-law swore she had Orangelo and Lemongelo as clients in rural Tennessee...

One of my really good friends said that Ornajello and Lemonjello were patients at Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit) while she was there.

Now you say they graduated in Georgia......

Urban Legend.

So, you're suggestion is that because it shows up on an internet search that it is an urban legend?

Whatever.
Aug. 3, 2008 7:17 a.m. Datsun1500 HalfDork

I am suggesting that there are not 7 sets of twins named lemonjello and orangejello. It fits all of the urban legend points. Never confirmed, friend of a friend story, different parts of the country, stereotypes, etc.

Always twins, never a single lemonjello or orangejello.

With all of the searches there is no proof, no school records, no drivers license, etc. None.

Do you really believe there are at least 7 sets of twins with those names?

Exactly when did they graduate in Georgia? A couple of years ago is kinda vague.....
Aug. 3, 2008 7:46 a.m. SVreX UltraDork

I would agree that it is unlikely there are 7 sets of such people. Is it possible there is one?

Your assertion appears to be that I am offering misleading information based on your Google searches.

I am simply offering information shared with me from a dear trusted friend who is a 15 year veteran teacher about her own students. Though I never met these people, I trust my source.

Your source is an internet search.

And your approach is offensive to both me and my friend.

Is it possible my info is incorrect? Sure, welcome to the internet.

Is it likely you are stepping on toes. Absolutely.
Aug. 3, 2008 8:45 a.m. Datsun1500 HalfDork

Here is the issue. My Wife has a friend who is a teacher also. She had a set of twins, with the same name, in first grade about 3 years ago. Here in Maryland. Would I trust her, yes. Do I think she is repeating a story, yes.

My info is not an internet search, my info is I have heard the same exact story as you, a few years and a few hundred miles apart. My search just shows that the exact story is being told all over the US.

I bet if you ask your friend again, she didn't have them, but knows of someone that did... etc. etc. etc.

All I am saying is, it is an urban legend. If you don't believe the other 6 sets are real, why is the pair from Georgia real? You say it is possible there is one set of twins with those names, I agree. Which pair? Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Kansas, Richmond, Tennessee, or Michigan?

Here is how I heard the story, see if it is close to how you heard it.

She has a set of twins in her class that are named lemonjello and orangejello, pronounced le'MONGello and O'RAANGello. When she asked the mother about the names she says it is because Orange Jello and Lemon Jello are her favorite foods.

Close? Almost verbatim?

That is how I heard it in Maryland. You say it is in Georgia, Are you now calling my friend a liar, like you think I am calling yours? Are you now stepping on toes also?

So which is it? Snopes did not check the Baltimore County school records too?
Aug. 3, 2008 12:09 p.m. SVreX UltraDork

I've already said it could be life imitating art, and also admitted it was possible my info is incorrect, though I do trust my source.

This is obviously not sufficient for you. What is it you'd like me to say? I don't trust my friend?

If it is a win you are looking for, I concede. You win.

This is REALLY not an argument I feel like pursuing.
Aug. 3, 2008 1:09 p.m. Hal HalfDork

cwh wrote:

Try being a Charles for 60 odd years. Worse is that my son is Charles and so is his son. Argggh.

Yes that can lead to all kinds of confusion. The only difference between my fathers name and mine was the middle name but the middle initial was the same (he was Otis and I am Owen).

Additionally we both use "Hal" as a nickname. Friends and neighbors always called him "Harold" and me "Hal". But outside of that group things always got mixed up.

On the bright side of things we could some time use that to our advantage. Shortly after I got my drivers license the state changed thier numbering system and our license numbers ended up being different in only one digit. Numerous tickets were nulled because one of us could prove that it couldn't possibily been him since he was at work at that time and had the time sheets to prove it.
Aug. 4, 2008 9:41 a.m. 16vCorey Dork

AngryCorvair wrote:

16vCorey wrote:

My friend Kyle's son is named Phoenix Skullcrusher Kellogg. No joke.

he's still gonna get called Frosted Flake and have to fight for his lunch money every day.

Well Kellogg is his last name, so there wasn't much they could do about that one. Out of all the names to get made fun of in school, that has to be one of the most intimidating. I don't think I'd mess with a kid named "Skullcrusher". And I know all about getting made fun of for a name, my last name is Krietenstein.
Aug. 4, 2008 11:18 a.m. Salanis Dork

wlkelley3 wrote:

A guy I used to work with told me once when his wife (a nurse) worked in delivery, someone named their daughter Clamydia because she liked the sound of it and didn't know what it meant.

I heard a similar story. Smacks of urban legend.

Poorly educated woman in labor sees a word in a hospital, thinks it looks exotic and would make a good name for her soon-to-be-born daughter. Asks the nurse how it's pronounced.

"Oh that's pronounced 'Guh-NOR-ea'..."
Aug. 4, 2008 1:35 p.m. GameboyRMH Dork

16vCorey wrote:

My friend Kyle's son is named Phoenix Skullcrusher Kellogg. No joke.

Poopshovel, I think you're about to be out-rednecked!

On some talk show (Dr. Phil?) there was a mother who named her daughter Chlamydia, she "heard it somewhere" and thought it was "such a beatiful name"

Also if you're politically incorrect enough to laugh at pseudo-African names, you'd get a kick out of the the local newspaper's cutest-baby-photo competition. The ones I'll never forget are a brother and sister pair, Jakebo and Jakeba, but it's just a frickin' goldmine of comedy. Some of the names have so many apostrophes, they seem that they should be pronounced in Klingon, speaking of which, many of the names would also work nicely for a sci-fi villain. I do feel sorry for the children though.

I really don't mean anything racist by it, I just laugh my ass off when people give their children stupid names, although there is some added funny in people trying to make up names that sound like they're from another language and failing horribly. I deal with real African names fairly often, they're nothing like the things these parents make up.

Now hippie names...those are good. A cousin of mine marri- uh, "life partnered" a man who is named after a tree. I wish I could tell you which tree but I'd give away his identity. They had a son who is also named after a tree, but I must say it's a rather feminine tree name.

I've met two brothers named Jupiter (Just went by "Jay") and Sol. Hippie naming strikes again!

In high school I knew a guy named "Danise" (he said to pronounce it like "Da Knees")

I also laugh when parents name girls after the current chart-topping pop divas...women named Shakira are going to be a walking punch line in the future, with all the Britneys and Ashleys and Christinas laughing at them.
Aug. 4, 2008 1:45 p.m. Salanis Dork

GameboyRMH wrote:

I've met two brothers named Jupiter (Just went by "Jay") and Sol. Hippie naming strikes again!

I'm going to have to say that 'Jupiter' is not a hippie/sissy name. Jupiter=Zeus [Samuel L. Jackson] 'As in, shove a goddamn lightning bolt up your ass, Zeus!'[Samuel L.]

Sol... eh. Kinda hippie, but not stupid. If it were really hippie it would have been "Sunshine". At least Sol has some dignity.
Aug. 4, 2008 3:27 p.m. aircooled Dork

I once meet a lady who had to change her last name, she showed me her fathers business card, it was Dichhoff.
Aug. 4, 2008 4:04 p.m. Duke Dork

Datsun1500 wrote:

Here is the issue. My Wife has a friend who is a teacher also. She had a set of twins, with the same name, in first grade about 3 years ago. Here in Maryland. Would I trust her, yes. Do I think she is repeating a story, yes.

And the St. Louis, MO, public school records from the early '80s, because I heard the story there in 1987-88 from a friend's mother, who was a teacher in that system. I've heard it since then from another source - my kid's 3rd grade teacher here in Delaware.

svrex, nobody is calling you a liar. Certainly I'm not. I'm just saying it's way too good a story, heard from way too many places, to be true.

Now, on to some real names I know personally:

A dorm-mate of mine from college's middle name was "Fingulfin". I saw his driver's license myself.

When I was a kid, we went to the EAA Fly-In at Oshkosh. There I happened to meet Bill Lear of LearJet fame, and his daughter "Shanda".

My sister had a friend named "Ona-Kai-Lynn" for no reason we were ever able to discern, since both of her parents were from New Jersey.

A contractor I worked with on several houses named his first daughter "Aryan". Seems they thought they were naming her "Orion" after the constellation/star, and were confused about the spelling. That one's gonna leave a mark in today's world.

Oh, and the guy running the Baltimore County L&I department in the mid '90s was named Julius Cesarini.
Aug. 4, 2008 4:08 p.m. Dr. Hess UberDork

MitchellC wrote:

My greatest challenge is getting people to not call me Mitch.

Why, Mitch? What's wrong with that?

Zabasearch has a Peter and a Rae Lemonjello. And there's a Lemonjello Snarfblat living in Tempe, AZ. No Orangejello's.
Aug. 4, 2008 5:17 p.m. MitchellC Reader

Careful, Hess, or I'll send Obama on you.

Meanwhile, someone, somewhere in the mother country...

"Ay chap, I 'ear that yanks name their kids Randy of all things."

"Bloody 'ell! Milk in yer tea, mate?"
Aug. 5, 2008 8:04 a.m. 16vCorey Dork

MitchellC wrote:

Careful, Hess, or I'll send Obama on you.

Meanwhile, someone, somewhere in the mother country...

"Ay chap, I 'ear that yanks name their kids Randy of all things."

"Bloody 'ell! Milk in yer tea, mate?"

Speaking of which, a few years ago when he was going for some kind of record and was all over the news, am I the only one that chuckled every time a news anchor said "Randy Johnson"?

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