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| From | "floatingunder" <underthefloat@msn.com> |
| Subject | Re: A terrifying thing happened during dinner tonight (O/T) |
| Date | Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:46:04 -0000 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Coxe" <audities@...> wrote:
>
> The yuppies & celebraties stole the concept from poor folk. Some
30 years
> ago a friend worked for the Wake County (Raleigh, NC) welfare
department.
> She was interviewing one destitute lady, and when it came around to
> her kids names,
> the lady responded (deadly serious) "Lavoris & Listerine" -- which
if you sound
> them out are quite pretty. There were other product instances,
pulled from the
> store shelves, or TV or magazine ads, and one named their child
Pajama
> (pronounced Paj'-a-ma). When my friend sputtered "What!?", the
response was
> "You know, pajama, like in the Sears catalog".
>
> Yet another sad case of the rich ripping off ideas & art from the
poor...
>
True. And take the celebs and yupsters take it to new levels of self
importance.
More in the not so pretensious vein but from a product..
The one I know of that's true is from my Sister-In-Law. Someone she
knows from somewhere had twins named Orangejello and Lemonjello.
Only pronounced Orangallo and Lemmongallo, or something like that.
Steve D.
NP Queen A night at the Opera (musical referance)
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