There was even a one-hit wonder R&B singer who was named “Oran”–cite.
Hmmmm…The Toyota car salesman who sold me my last car had a first name of La. I wonder if it is related (I think he said he was of Vietnamese (sp?) descent
Come to think of it, there is/was a race car driver named Dick Trickle.
Also, it seems like the Oranjello/Lemonjello urban legend has been around long enough, that there might be one or two kids out there with one of those names. Sort of a self-fulfilling [del]prophecy[/del] lie.
Okay with a name like that, she’s got to have at least one stag film under her belt? Right? …right?!
Ha! I thought I typed Milkman and had to scroll up to what I wrote to believe you!
No worries. Velvet Milkshake is an even better name. With my job I come across lots of odd names too. My two favorites at the moment are General Miracle and Princess Fudge.
There’s a difference between an odd name or combination of names and names that require the giver to be illiterate and (generally in the stories) black.
Haw haw haw! She didn’t know the word “Female”! Haw haw haw! She didn’t know what “Chlamydia” was and she thought it was purrrrty! Haw haw haw! The people I work with are so stupid they named their kids “Lemonjello and Orangejello”!
When your actual name is Lanzy you tend to bond with other odd names. My favorite real name I know is “Irma Screw”.
There is a local politician here named Mike Cox. I giggle whenever I see his signs in people’s yards. I don’t know why he doesn’t go by Michael, although I bet people remember his name this way!
Mmmm, I know what Jello is, I’ve seen the boxes ages back, but the joke utterly escapes me.
“Jello” and “Hoover” are used as insults?
I know Ivor Ash.
And his sister Olga. Which isn’t as funny.
If my name was Pink, I’d quickly adopt the nickname Floyd. In the movie Dazed and Confused there was a character named Randall Floyd whose nickname was Pink.
My first college roommate was Peter Dick. Yes, he’d heard every possible joke about it, and had a preemptive “I’ll never name a son of mine Harry.”
My wife went to school with (and we have the yearbook to prove it) the Crotchfelt sisters. I believe one of them said “fuck this” and legally changed her name right out of high school.
As to the whole Oranjello/Lemonjello thing, I would have to think that by now someone would’ve seen it as a short cut to some minor fame and given their kids those names.
One of the English teachers in my high school was a Miss Stiff, who sophomore year married a Mr. Cox. She chose not to hyphenate.
And I once defended a case against a plaintiff named Harry A. Ness. I dunno; I think I would have gone by “Henry” or maybe dropped the “A.”
Oops. Ubiquitous, not pejorative. Not sure what I was thinking there.
Jello comes in different flavors, such as lemon and orange. The story goes that a woman who just gave birth was given lemon jello in the hospital, saw what it said, and thought that Lemongello (accent on the second syllable) would be a great name for her son. Same story with Orangello. Similar story with Nosmo King.
While this could be a mean parent (see quote below), there are several fake names in my high school year book. “Sid Vicious” was a self edit, but a couple of subtle, mean jibes made it through editing as well.
I was going to mention that as well.
You may not believe it, it may not happen often, but it does happen. I met girl from Micronesia whose mother was named Florence. For some reason, her father wanted all his daughters to have Flo- names. She was the fourth and ended up with Florene (pronounced the same as flourine). I forget what the rest of her sisters names were, but there were five of them in total.
ETA: I did meet a Chief Stains in the Navy. At some point in his career (at least in boot camp) he would have been Seaman Stains.
It’s pronounced “Assy.”