--- 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)