# I do not believe you. In fact, I think you're a liar. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154 "2009-09-22T22:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/61 "2009-09-23T05:35:05Z")
I think the OP has too much faith in people. I have _no doubt_ that most people who claim this stuff are mistaken if not outright lying, but I’ve seen some pretty damned odd names while working in the hospital. My mother is a supervisor in the records department of a major auto/property insurer and everyone in their department shares the funny names they find. This has always been a fascination for my mother for some reason, so she really enjoys it. Just the other day she told me about a policy for a Snow White. ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/62 "2009-09-23T06:13:20Z")
Grew up on the same block as a kid named Mike Hunt. My parents’ best friends when I was young were named Sieman. They named their son Peter Sieman. They moved after 10 years, but there are people across the nation who know him since he was a pilot. Also, my parents claimed to know a “Fonda Dix.” I called bullshit and was promptly show the yearbook with her name in it. She was quite a good basketball player. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/63 "2009-09-23T10:28:46Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I met a woman named Mi Suk Whang. > > God I wish I was joking. Of all the times for an Asian immigrant to choose a westernized name, that has got to be one. I am sure I have told this story before at the SDMB, but a few years ago my wife had, in her second grade class, a (vietnamese immigrant) boy with the unfortunate name “Phuc Huu Ho”. (I saw the class roster—at first I didn’t believe her.) At school they called him “Huu”. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/64 "2009-09-23T10:47:23Z")
I went to school with a Pat Hiscock and have cousins whose first and middle names are Misty Spring and Lease Profit. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/65 "2009-09-23T11:22:31Z")
There are plenty of Chris Peacocks in the UK. And I was at school with a chap called Richard Head, his dad taught our philosophy class. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/66 "2009-09-23T11:24:07Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > Grew up on the same block as a kid named Mike Hunt. My brother and I went to school with Violet Cox. ---
**Author:** ![wmfellows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@wmfellows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wmfellows)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/67 "2009-09-23T11:58:40Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > No, you do not know someone named “Oranjello” or “Lemonjello.” Question, what’s the joke here? The others seem obvious, but there must be some play on words that is escaping me due to lack of familiarity with the dialect or whatnot. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Disbelieve any of these first names at your peril. I can deliver to you the online court record links which will demonstrate their reality. But several are real names mate: > [@](#): > > ACE Stupid but real. > [@](#): > > JUBA Memory tells me there is a historical figure of this name… > [@](#): > > TARRICK This is just the Arab name, although the spelling is a bit queer, it doesn’t seem to me to be in the realm of the truly illiterate (as some of the others are). > [@](#): > > ORAN It does seem a bit odd to name someone after an Algerian city, but… ---
**Author:** ![JimNightshade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jimnightshade/32/3354_2.png) [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/68 "2009-09-23T12:03:09Z")
I went to school with someone having the surname Superamaniam - I think he was from Sri Lanka. Always liked that one. Super a man I am. ---
**Author:** ![Buford\_was\_no\_angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Buford\_was\_no\_angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buford_was_no_angel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/69 "2009-09-23T12:05:55Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > In my job I can see 10,000 names a day. I collect them. My two favorites are Velvet Milkshake (who, I found out, is a semi-famous college coach. Women’s Golf I think) and Gloria Hole. > > On edit: I don’t claim to _know_ these people, though. [I think you mean Velvet Milkman, the women’s golf coach at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky](http://www.goracers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=6700&ATCLID=218404). ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/70 "2009-09-23T12:17:03Z")
This morning I nearly choked on my coffee when I read the name tag of the asian girl woman served me…Dong Mei! No lie, I thought I was on candid camera or maybe in an Austin Powers movie! I went to school with a guy named John Thomas and could never stop snickering whenever they called his name.😃 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/71 "2009-09-23T12:53:53Z")
Re: ORAN, I don’t really know what’s so bizarre about it. It’s an unusual name but no hilarious sounding or anything. [Odhran - Name Meaning, What does Odhran mean?](http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Odhran) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/72 "2009-09-23T13:03:25Z")
> [@wmfellows](#): > > > [@jsgoddess](#): > > > > No, you do not know someone named “Oranjello” or “Lemonjello.” > > Question, what’s the joke here? > > The others seem obvious, but there must be some play on words that is escaping me due to lack of familiarity with the dialect or whatnot. Your profile doesn’t show your location, but I gather you must live in a country where Jell-O is not a popular dessert. Lemon Jell-O and Orange Jell-O. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/73 "2009-09-23T13:04:09Z")
I had to call a guy named Dick Burns once. It was hard to keep from laughing at his name. Every Children Services court liason here insists that they have seen Orangejello and Lemonjello, but I ask for proof (it would be in their computer system) and they offer to show me and then never actually do it. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/74 "2009-09-23T13:07:58Z")
My parents were teachers for many years at an early education school (K-3) and here a couple of 100% true ones that they came across: Placenta - No kidding, this was honest to god a kid’s name Semaj Trebor - Read it backwards … Robert James Pink and Pinky - this was a brother and sister. The brother was Pink. Not only that, but he was Pink III. His Dad and Grandfather also had the name Pink, and both decided to pass on the name. These aren’t first hand, mind you, but very credible second hand reports. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/75 "2009-09-23T13:14:08Z")
Has anyone mentioned Dick Swett, a politician from NH? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/76 "2009-09-23T13:19:10Z")
Didn’t _Freakanomics_ report Lemonjello/Orangello thing verbatim? > [@](#): > > Question, what’s the joke here? > > The others seem obvious, but there must be some play on words that is escaping me due to lack of familiarity with the dialect or whatnot. Jell-O is a brand name for what Brits call jelly- gelatin-based fruit flavoured desserts, in other words. It’s become the pejorative here, like _Hoover_ in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/77 "2009-09-23T13:19:42Z")
> [@wmfellows](#): > > It does seem a bit odd to name someone after an Algerian city, but… Very common in some Latin American countries. I have personally met, am related to, or have documentation of the existence of: Japonesa (japanese) Francia Australia (France Australia) German (very common, but pronounced differently than the English version) Aleman (German) Argentina Germania Marciana (Martian) Grecia (Greece) And more I don’t remember now. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/78 "2009-09-23T13:21:37Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > Has anyone mentioned Dick Swett, a politician from NH? Yes. (Post 48). I’ve also met a Phuc. He was working at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, where I was chaperoning a high school choir trip during my student teaching. The kids had fun with that one. I’ve said it a few times here, but I knew someone in college named Candy Hooker. ---
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/79 "2009-09-23T13:27:46Z")
Hahahaha. Sorry OP. I’m sure this isn’t where you expected this thread to go. I’ll scan and post a picture of Pepsi Hooker from my yearbook, though. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154/80 "2009-09-23T13:28:01Z")
There are plenty of Dick Burns (Byrne) hereabouts. I once knew a guy who pronounced his name “Anus Lane”. I dunno how he actually spelled his first name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-do-not-believe-you-in-fact-i-think-youre-a-liar/511154.md?page=5)