# Are these people friggin' serious? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 31, 2001, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354 "2001-07-31T17:42:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/41 "2001-08-01T22:28:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BunnyGirl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Half a million dollars is undoubtedly enough to pay their debts, buy a house and start a college fund. > > Sure, if you’re a smart person. But we’re obviously not dealing with someone whose elevator goes all the way to the top. > > My guess is any monies would be immediately put into a big kegger, new trashy clothes for the wife, a home entertainment system, a big fat Dodge duelie with a sticker of Calvin peeing on a Ford symbol, and a year off work. Oh, plus $579 worth of Lotto tickets. > > Nimrods. \*\* I wouldn’t be surprised if that turns out to be the case :(I feel for those kids:( ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/42 "2001-08-01T22:31:20Z")
Damnit… that’s supposed to be > [@](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised if that turns out to be the case\*\*.\*\* > :(I feel **bad** for those kids:( ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/43 "2001-08-01T23:37:11Z")
I agree, I don’t think that half a mil would ever see an educational institution. Maybe for the first month it’d go to diapers and food, but after that … I don’t mean to judge these people because of their income bracket, of course. I’m judging them as I would judge anyone who blatantly uses an innocent child, born or un, as a ploy to make money. “As long as we provide him with a comfortable and loving home …” Umm, sir? You’ve already failed. Suck my nuts you greedy cheese weasel. Dragonblink the Disgruntled ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/44 "2001-08-02T19:18:48Z")
**Farmer Oak** Did your low-life whoring pimpster mom (not that there’s anything wrong with it) sell your naming rights to Thomas Hardy? ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/45 "2001-08-02T20:03:02Z")
I taught well over 1000 kids in areas outside of Washington, D.C. and currently work in a job where I come across hundreds of thousands of names. I can attest that the name like “Coke” or “Pepsi” would not be any more burdonsome than some that I’ve seen, what with French-esque spellings and all. What scares me is if this couple succeeds and finds it quite profitable. There could be even more spawn!!! To extend the “good saviour company” idea mentioned above, why not XYZ buy the naming rights for the $500,000; name the kid “Marcia” or whatever and put the money into a **trust fund** locked until the kid is 18 and untouchable by the sperm & egg donors she’ll call “mom” and “dad”. The only “benefit” of this is that they give some kid half a mil and get to claim that they are good guys. Otherwise, the kid still has a “normal” name. The question becomes if the company can score half a mil in generated-profits to cover their outlay. I doubt it. Hey, I just thought of this. Wasn’t there some guy auctioning his kidney on e-bay? Didn’t he get into some sort of trouble for this? One would think that the same “rules” would apply to the cum-sicle and his semen-sop wife. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/46 "2001-08-02T20:06:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by sturmhauke \* > > \*\*My fiancee knew two guys named Lemonjello and Oranjello, after a certain quavering, artificially fruit flavored meat byproduct endorsed by Bill Cosby. \*\* > > No, she certainly did not. This is a pernicious urban legend. (See [http://www.snopes.com/spoons/fracture/names.htm](http://www.snopes.com/spoons/fracture/names.htm) ). I will write you and your fiancee a check for $100 each if you can provide any documentary evidence of this.\*\* Just because it’s an urban legend doesn’t mean it could never have happened, you do realize. That’s the problem you get into. You can NOT absolutely debunk the existence of a person named Oranjello simply because it is - in MOST cases - an urban legend. Faulty logic. My sister knows a guy who calls himself Oranjello, but I’m fairly certain his given name is simply Angelo and he likes to fool with people. ---
**Author:** ![FarmerOak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@FarmerOak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerOak)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/47 "2001-08-02T20:12:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by heresiarch \* > \*\ ***Farmer Oak** > Did your low-life whoring pimpster mom (not that there’s anything wrong with it) sell your naming rights to Thomas Hardy? \*\* Heh heh. You’d be surprised (or maybe you wouldn’t) how few people dig the reference. You should see the eyes glaze over when I try to explain it. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/48 "2001-08-02T20:48:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > \*\*Just because it’s an urban legend doesn’t mean it could never have happened, you do realize. \*\* Yeah, but friend-of-a-friend (FOAF) stories should always be looked at with heavy skepticism. Go on alt.folklore.urban and see how many newbie posters _swear_ that their friend knew someone who was on duty at the ER the night Richard Gere came in with a gerbil up his butt. Yet ask for a person or some evidence that can verify this information and it almost always leads nowhere. The FOAF turns into his friend’s uncle knew the guy… then my friend’s uncle knew a guy who was the former roomate of the guy… etc etc. These people may not be deliberately passing on false information, and most ULs wouldn’t be earth shattering if proven true, but the purden of proof is on them if people expect to take their claim seriously. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2001, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/49 "2001-08-10T07:55:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > I will write you and your fiancee a check for $100 each if you can provide any documentary evidence of this. Save your money for now. I asked her about it and she said she didn’t know them, but she heard it from someone else… well you get the idea. However, I wouldn’t be suprised if somewhere there is really a Lemonjello, since there are in fact two individuals named [ESPN](http://www.caller.com/2001/april/04/today/localspo/22172.html) and [Silver Ann Blackwell](http://www.newstimes.com/archive97/jul3197/shorts.htm) (her parents are Raiders fans). ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/50 "2001-08-11T05:18:46Z")
I met a girl who worked as a waitress at Chili’s in Concord, NC at Concord Mills Mall whose name was Pepsi. No joke. She said that was her real name, and acted like she was asked that all the time, I don’t know if it was true or not, I didn’t ask for a birth certificate but I believed her. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354/51 "2001-08-15T21:00:48Z")
In beautiful Jefferson City, MO there is Popp’s lown and garden center, run by the Popps. They named their son “Soda” and their daughter “Lolly” I actually met Soda. He was coaching the flag football team we played against when I was 10. I think he had it legally changed at some point. Either that or became a male prositute, I don’t remember for sure. My best friend also dated a girl, whom I’ve met, called Debbie Mae Rust. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-people-friggin-serious/74354.md?page=2)