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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: A terrifying thing happened during dinner tonight (O/T) |
| Date | Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:39:37 -0400 |
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At Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:46:04 it was written:
>--- 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.
Just urban legend...
http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm
Jaimie Vernon,
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