When will people stop perpetuating the urban name myth

[BellePrincessBelle]

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.

 

[DVCLiz]

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.

Then stop reading message boards - in fact, stop getting email too.

 

[dogluva]

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.

And it is always someone's sister who was a nurse or a sister who was a teacher. Please.

 

[Luvchefmic]

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.

I thought it was too ridiculous to be true although it did remind me of a professional bowler that lived down the block from us as a kid Mike Lemongello ...out of 5 kids my Dad was determined to have a professional bowler from our family too.of course he never did .so take heart that at least I laughed today with the memory of it all

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

Then stop reading message boards - in fact, stop getting email too.

Well it has never come in my email. Any one with half a brain knows it's a crock but yet people still insist on telling it. It reminds me of that stupid email that people forward about one day being "ban the gas station day" so that we'll "force gas prices back down". I find it hard to belive that people are that gullible to believe these stories.

 

[Jestocost]

But Fennis and Fenise Dembo are real.

 

[Magpie]

I really did know a guy whose first name was "Spawn". That's what his parents named him, and he said having that name taught him to fight from a very early age.

Ima Hogg is real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg

As is Mark Lemongello: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lemongello

Who can forget Peekaboo Street?

And from the New York Times Magazine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/s...em&ex=1205380800&en=ed5eac5a9b454406&ei=5087

... I say this even after learning about Emma Royd and Post Office in a new book, “Bad Baby Names,” by Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback.

By scouring census records from 1790 to 1930, Mr. Sherrod and Mr. Rayback discovered Garage Empty, Hysteria Johnson, King Arthur, Infinity Hubbard, Please Cope, Major Slaughter, Helen Troy, several Satans and a host of colleagues to the famed Ima Hogg (including Ima Pigg, Ima Muskrat, Ima Nut and Ima Hooker).

The authors also interviewed adults today who had survived names like Candy Stohr, Cash Guy, Mary Christmas, River Jordan and Rasp Berry. All of them, even Happy Day, seemed untraumatized.

If the "La-a" story circulates long enough, you just KNOW someone's going to name their child that.

 

[Luvchefmic]

Well it has never come in my email. Any one with half a brain knows it's a crock but yet people still insist on telling it. It reminds me of that stupid email that people forward about one day being "ban the gas station day" so that we'll "force gas prices back down". I find it hard to belive that people are that gullible to believe these stories.

Hard to believe but every now & then you see on the news the people that still answer those emails you have won a lottery in another country or I am the King of_________ send me your bank account number & you will have 1/2 my riches...

 

[NHdisneylover]

At the same time as the ycome to their senses financially. (I coldn't jhelp it they are right next to each other)

Oh, and it bugs me too.

 

[laurie31]

I first heard the "jello brothers" story in college - in 1985!!! So it's been "out there" for quite some time.

I got "la-a" via email but it was identified as a joke, not something real.

But yeah, it's always someone who KNEW the person who knew the jello brothers. Too funny.

I did, myself, personally see infant twins named Crimson and Clover. Girls.

At least maybe none of their peers will get the reference.

 

[barkley]

not an urban myth. i held the original certified birth certificates in my own personal hands. i got them directly from the county agency that issued them in order to file them in their public assistance case record. so there's at least one set of what would now be adult twins saddled with these names, but i can assure you they were'nt the worst i came across-

consider

'kunta kinte fudge'

'chasetitty' (and it was not a misspelled version of chastity, the mom inisisted it was to be pronounced 'chase *****',

and (in my opinion) the all time losers in the name game.............. the cox kids (only not spelled c-o-x, spelled in the manner that is commonly used for a part of the male anatomy)-


there was the son "ima" and his sister "fonda"

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

not an urban myth. i held the original certified birth certificates in my own personal hands. i got them directly from the county agency that issued them in order to file them in their public assistance case record. so there's at least one set of what would now be adult twins saddled with these names, but i can assure you they were'nt the worst i came across-

consider

'kunta kinte fudge'

'chasetitty' (and it was not a misspelled version of chastity, the mom inisisted it was to be pronounced 'chase *****',

and (in my opinion) the all time losers in the name game.............. the cox kids (only not spelled c-o-x, spelled in the manner that is commonly used for a part of the male anatomy)-


there was the son "ima" and his sister "fonda"

Unless I actually see it for myself sorry not buying it. As another poster said that rumor has been around forever and a day.

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

At the same time as the ycome to their senses financially. (I coldn't jhelp it they are right next to each other)

Oh, and it bugs me too.

Maybe if they had financial sense they wouldn't be here spreading urban myths .

 

[punkin]

If the "La-a" story circulates long enough, you just KNOW someone's going to name their child that.

I like it! Next time I have a baby that will definitely be her name!

 

[merryweather20]

I think the stories are a non issue because everyone knows flesh and blood people with far worse names.

I taught swimming lessons as a teen and I had a little girl named Bottled and a little boy named Johniffer. I don't remember Johny's last name, but Bottled's last name was Beer.

Growing up there was a Oopsy, Daisy is the phone book (although she got her name changed later in life) and a White, Snow.

I don't think Lemon Jello really holds a candle to the Beer parents quite frankly, and I've taught several little girls named La-la or Lala (I just pronounced it like it reads) and I thought that was a heck of a lot better than the parents who named there girls Frasier, which was popular at the time. I really was not fond of naming little girls after a Pompous ~50 year old sitcom character.

 

[Pinkpony]

I agree with the spreading of the urban myth....so annoying.

But since funny names have come up, I've got to share my funny name story.

A few months ago, we had a name come up in our petit jury (I work at a courthouse) of Brick Wall. No kidding. And it just so happened that one of our witnesses for the trial was going to be Gene Pool. Now, Brick did not end up sitting on our jury, and the case settled before Gene Pool had a chance to testify. But it still makes me giggle when I think of those two names coming up on the same day at work.

 

[barkley]

i always felt sorry for the little boy whose mom named him 'mypreciousbaby' (again saw the kid, held the b.c. in my hand). i cannot fathom any nick name that could be fashioned out of this for a boy that would prevent teasing

 

[torinsmom]

A teacher I once had named his son Charles Fountain Leak and he was a fourth, LOL. You'd think after living with that name, you would end the cycle.

Marsha

 

[Deb in IA]

The same is true La-a(haha pronounced Ladasha) and Abcde and ******

Actually, "Abcde" IS true.

The one that I know fortunately got adopted and her parents changed her name to Abby.

 

[Buckalew11]

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.

And it is always someone's sister who was a nurse or a sister who was a teacher. Please.

I can promise you that my sister had a boy named Orangejello in her elementary PE class many years ago in South Carolina. I've told that story on here since I've been on the DIS since 2000 when the topic of funny names comes up. His brother wasn't Lemonjello though.