# What are the odds?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds/296129>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 25, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds/296129 "2005-03-25T01:52:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds/296129/1 "2005-03-25T01:52:59Z")

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I sold a couple of things on Ebay today.

Two items going to two completely different parts of the country.

Both are on a street named : Meadowlark.

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**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds/296129/2 "2005-03-25T02:19:14Z")

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Maybe you sell tweet things?  
😛

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds/296129/3 "2005-03-25T02:34:10Z")

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dunno.

Maybe they are _lemons_

Meadowlark…lemon…Har!

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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds/296129/4 "2005-03-25T03:55:49Z")

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Hey Shirley, I just wanted you to know that I got it. Most people here probably have no clue who Meadowlark Lemon was.

Remember when he started up his own facsimile of the Globetrotters? What was the name of that team??

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-odds/296129/5 "2005-03-25T05:13:23Z")

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> [@August West](#):
>
> Hey Shirley, I just wanted you to know that I got it. Most people here probably have no clue who Meadowlark Lemon was.
> 
> Remember when he started up his own facsimile of the Globetrotters? What was the name of that team??

Well, I remember the Bucketeers, but there were also the Shooting Stars and Meadowlark Lemon Harlem All-Stars. [More info here.](http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/lemon_meadowlark.htm)

I saw the Globetrotters play at the Cleveland Arena about 1972. Their opponents were the New Jersey Reds (featuring player-coach Red Klotz), the team renamed the Generals after “relocating” to Washington.

The Trotters’ theme song, _Sweet Georgia Brown_, has been fitted with new lyrics in order to advertise a Lafayette business known as Denny’s Auto Parts.

Trick Answers for $800: The Globetrotters are named for a geographical feature in this major United States city.