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| From | Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com> |
| Subject | Re: A terrifying thing happened during dinner tonight (O/T) |
| Date | Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:52:13 -0400 |
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rob@splitsville.com wrote:
> Nah...Steve, your sister-in-law lied to you. This is stictly within the 'urban myth' category.
>
> I was going to school outside of Paris, 1996, and I used to commute to class with another American. He was from Illinois, and he told the same story, but...'you know she was a single mom from the south side of Chicago, and she loved jello so much she had to name her kids Lemongello and Orangello."
>
> If you trace back the timeline of that story, Lemongello and Orangello are juniors in college by now.
>
> That story is about as true as the Cardiff Giant.
>
Actually, if you read FREAKONOMICS, which I mentioned yesterday, this
story is true, and there are others they relate in the course of
discussing the relationship between naming and achievement (like the one
I mentioned in my post yesterday) that are more bizarre even that that.
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