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12-15-2005, 08:20 PM
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Re: Stupid Names
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[ QUOTE ] From the book Freakonomics [censored] (Pronounced Shih-theed) Johnson Twins named OrangeJello and LemonJello There were more, but I don't have the book in front of me. [/ QUOTE ] These are urban legends. See snopes.com. [/ QUOTE ] And here's a link, you gullible fvcks. 
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12-15-2005, 09:41 PM
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Re: Stupid Names
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] From the book Freakonomics [censored] (Pronounced Shih-theed) Johnson Twins named OrangeJello and LemonJello There were more, but I don't have the book in front of me. [/ QUOTE ] These are urban legends. See snopes.com. [/ QUOTE ] And here's a link, you gullible fvcks. [/ QUOTE ] For the record, the author does identify Orangejello and lemonjello as having not been verified by social securty data, but also says that he learned of the names firsthand from "Doug McAdams, a socialogist at Standford University, who swears he met the twin boys at a grocery store" (i'm looking at the book). Anyway, do the boys exist? Probably. Shih-theed? That one may be fake; the source is someone who called into a radio show complaining about the name given to her new baby neice. Gullible [censored]? I take offense to that. What's the need for the condescension? The link doesn't even say the names are fake.
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12-15-2005, 09:55 PM
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Re: Stupid Names
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] From the book Freakonomics [censored] (Pronounced Shih-theed) Johnson Twins named OrangeJello and LemonJello There were more, but I don't have the book in front of me. [/ QUOTE ] These are urban legends. See snopes.com. [/ QUOTE ] And here's a link, you gullible fvcks. [/ QUOTE ] For the record, the author does identify Orangejello and lemonjello as having not been verified by social securty data, but also says that he learned of the names firsthand from "Doug McAdams, a socialogist at Standford University, who swears he met the twin boys at a grocery store" (i'm looking at the book). Anyway, do the boys exist? Probably. Shih-theed? That one may be fake; the source is someone who called into a radio show complaining about the name given to her new baby neice. Gullible [censored]? I take offense to that. What's the need for the condescension? The link doesn't even say the names are fake. [/ QUOTE ] "But because the story fits in with what's already believed about the shortcomings of whichever group the mother is supposedly part of, the tale will be re-told and believed anew."
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#4
12-15-2005, 10:21 PM
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Re: Stupid Names
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"But because the story fits in with what's already believed about the shortcomings of whichever group the mother is supposedly part of, the tale will be re-told and believed anew." [/ QUOTE ] So based on that statement, Snopes has just made it impossible that anyone would ever have a ridiculous name? Also, I would tend to give the word of a Stanford sociologist some weight.
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