When will people stop perpetuating the urban name myth

[bamagirl@hrt]

Well, I'm the one the OP bashed on another thread. Honestly, I've never heard the urband legend surrounding these names. My sister lives in another state than I do, and she is not one to lie to me. Maybe, since this has been around "forever," the parent read this urban legend and really named them that. Maybe it was a stupid nickname. I don't know. But you really come across as a jerk for your reaction to my post.

And for the record, despite what many here seem to believe about others' intelligence, I didn't graduate magna cum laude in engineering by being a dummy.

I think I'll hang out over on the nice parts of the DISboards for awhile.

 

[DawnCt1]

of Orangejello & Lemonjello? They DID NOT exist people!!!! For the love of all things holy I have read it 7 times this week on 7 different message boards. The same is true La-a(haha pronounced Ladasha) and Abcde and ******. I seriously want to scream when I read these.

Those names are nothing compared to real names that I have seen INFLICTED on newborns when I worked post partum on OB-GYN.

Nancy Ann Cianci. Doesn't look all that "interesting". Say it out loud a couple of times.

Nosmo King. Yup. The mom was pushing very hard and glanced at a No Smoking sign in the hall. That's just for starters.

And then there is Peter Abbott. Say that a couple of times. I think I would prefer orange jello.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

I've met an Lemonjello. I believe his name was a mispelling of Lemongello; at any rate, he pronounced it Lih-mahn-jel-lo. I don't know if he had a twin or not. I suspect not.

 

[Pinkpony]

Hey, bamagirl, sorry. I didn't realize someone on here was being attacked by this post. I didn't mean anything by mine.

 

[marcyinPA]

My DH went to high school with a Barbara Doll. Yup...Barbie Doll. Honest to God, cross my heart...it's the truth!

 

[izzy]

A friend of mine knew a woman named Taffy Dick who married Tom Peters. Yep, her name was Taffy Dick Peters. (Wonder if any of this will be *****'ed out?)

I knew someone who worked in medical records years ago who used to tell me some funny names of patients. My favorite was "Female." Mother's explanation - "she came with that name on her bracelet."

 

[Buckalew11]

So, are you so stubborn in wanting to be right you are calling me a liar because my sister is a teacher and had a boy named Orangejello in her class?

 

[brerrabbit]

I spent many years as a Assistant District Administrator for Little League Baseball. One of our duties was come allstar time (like the ones playing in Williamsport starting tomorrow) was to check the birth certificates of players competing. I have seen some pretty good ones, Rocky Land, Summer Winter Camp, etc. I know it is an "urban legend" but I promise you I had a Lemonjello T. Johnson one year.

I too am very skeptical when it comes to the spreading of e-mails and am the very first to run to Snopes to check the latest one out and feel like I know one when I see one. I never believed the jello name until I held it in my hand, but there it was and I made a fool out of myself by telling the coach presenting it that it was a joke right? He got pretty upset and basically told me how tired he was of the joke and that he actually had a kid with that name. The first night of the tournament I was at the game when his Mother was cheering for him as he came to bat, and sure enough she yelled "come on an hit that ball Lemonjello". Half the stands (the other team) starting cracking up.

 

[minkydog]

I have a set of twins in my school named Vanessa Deshay and Janessa D'shay. And they look just alike. Another set of twins is Kristen and Kirsten. And they are identical. They pretty much get called Kristen all the time.

I also went to school with Desiree and Desilee, pronounced "dez-i-ree" and "dez-i-lee". Unfortunatly, they did not look alike and they were commonly called "the pretty one" and "the other one."

 

[kimblebee]

I went to high school with a Chris Bacon. His middle name was Patrick.

Chris P. Bacon

 

[EMom]

Sensitive much? I'm not "bashing" you. The fact is those names come up every freakin year on a bunch of message boards since I've been on the 'net back in the 90's. As a pp said it's always someones sister who is a Teacher or a Nurse. The story is always the same it never changes beyond those 2 scenarios. ETA it's like the proverbial beating of a dead horse the same story over & over again. So I'll be a "jerk" thanks but at least I can tell an urban myth when I see one.

Ummmm....The reason it's often a teacher or a nurse that "reports" these atrocious names is because THOSE are the people who most often see the atrocious names. As a former teacher, I saw some doozies. Teachers have students and nurses have patients. They come across some godawful names. I personally met a worker at Astroworld named "Washateria" and it was all I could do to keep a straight face. A friend of mine from when we were in kindergarten has been a teacher for over 20 years and has taught a couple of kids named after STDs and one named after a medicine to clear up yeast infections. I've known her since she was 5...She's not making it up.

I could add a few more names that are frequently tagged as being urban myths which sadly, don't believe are myths at all. I do think the quantity may be exaggerated, but the quality of the names (or lack thereof) is unquestionable. Some people aim to name their children "unique" names. Just ask all the kids named Unique. Maybe you don't live in an area where you come across people with names that make your eyes bug out, but I assure you, they exist.

 

[NotUrsula]

Part of the problem with those particular jokes circulating so widely is that somewhere along the line, someone was bound to hear them and not get the irony.

So yes, I remember dating a med student 25 years ago who told me the "Positive Wassermann" joke, and the "Syphilis and Gonorrhea" joke. The "Nosmo King" joke was popular with that crowd, too.

The thing is, do you really think that no joker in that 25-30 years has ever managed to convince some poor woman to do it? I suspect that life may well now have imitated fiction.

 

[chibichibirei]

According to the Social Security Death Index (http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi) There are 3 people listed under the name Orangelo, while not Orange Jello, I'd say it's pretty close. Also, this is just the SS death index, not including those who may still be alive and young.

Also there is a good article on Snopes.com that includes all of the Urban Legend names (including some that are risque body parts so I wont post the link) The stance that Snopes takes, and I use the website a lot to verify and debunk urban legends, is that they are just indeed legends. No real proof of someone named Orangejello or Lemonjello exists, it's not to say that people who have come across these names in their lives are liars, it's just that solid proof is scarce.

NotUrusula- Nosmo King was a real person, just not born with the name, he used it in a stage act and it ended up sticking, this was in the 1920's.

 

[bumbershoot]

Sensitive much? I'm not "bashing" you. The fact is those names come up every freakin year on a bunch of message boards since I've been on the 'net back in the 90's. As a pp said it's always someones sister who is a Teacher or a Nurse. The story is always the same it never changes beyond those 2 scenarios. ETA it's like the proverbial beating of a dead horse the same story over & over again. So I'll be a "jerk" thanks but at least I can tell an urban myth when I see one.

Just b/c something is out there in the stories we tell each other doesn't mean that it's never been true.

If you were talking to a high school friend of mine, she would tell you about a girl she babysat, named Crystal Shanda Leer. Since you're talking to me, it's a "a friend babysat this girl" story... But it's just as true.

 

[kelleyrn2000]

DH went to elementary school with a girl named "sexy" (she was not born in the US, not sure if it means something else in her homeland??)

A patient at work was giving the name of her daughter, Ka-ia, pronounced (ka dash ia ) and was suprised we couldn't figure out how to say it until she told us.

Another patient of mine had quadruplet boys, which she named all various versions of the name Alejandro. As if it wouldn't be hard enough to keep track of four kids!

 

[JVL1018]

Those names are nothing compared to real names that I have seen INFLICTED on newborns when I worked post partum on OB-GYN.

Nancy Ann Cianci. Doesn't look all that "interesting". Say it out loud a couple of times.

Nosmo King. Yup. The mom was pushing very hard and glanced at a No Smoking sign in the hall. That's just for starters.

And then there is Peter Abbott. Say that a couple of times. I think I would prefer orange jello.

Forget Peter Abbott, I personally have met Peter Rabbitt and yes he does have a brother Jack.

Also, when my daughter was in K or 1st, there was a 5th grader that was usually in the school newsletter for making honor roll. Her name is Bimbolina. One of her teachers told me that she asked the girl if she wanted to be called Lina, but she said no, she went by Bimbo, by her own choice. Or maybe it was Bimbalina, and they called her Bimba. Either way..

 

[Brooknwdw]

Forget Peter Abbott, I personally have met Peter Rabbitt and yes he does have a brother Jack.

Also, when my daughter was in K or 1st, there was a 5th grader that was usually in the school newsletter for making honor roll. Her name is Bimbolina. One of her teachers told me that she asked the girl if she wanted to be called Lina, but she said no, she went by Bimbo, by her own choice. Or maybe it was Bimbalina, and they called her Bimba. Either way..

Now THAT is funny!!!

 

[rie'smom]

This guy who had a crush on me in the 5th grade was named Richard Johnson. Can you guess his nickname?

 

[emdav]

I knew a Christmas Snow. He went by Chris.

 

[NotUrsula]

NotUrusula- Nosmo King was a real person, just not born with the name, he used it in a stage act and it ended up sticking, this was in the 1920's.

For years now there has been a joke common among medical students about attending a birth where a mother took the name from a sign on a door in the hospital. That's the version that may or may not ever have been true.