lol. but wouldn't the accent suggest Leh-MON-jeh-lo?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 8 October 2021 09:38 (two years ago) link
(with the same rhythm as 'D'Angelo'?)
my sister never got over the one kid she taught in her junior high class name Lemóngelo pronounce sadly as you might imagine it was.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 8, 2021 1:13 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sorry if I'm missing the joke, but you know this is an urban legend, right? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-feb-07-oe-daum7-story.html
― JRN, Friday, 8 October 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
Lemongello is a real surname though. There was a popular cabaret singer in the 1970s named Peter Lemongello (accent on the "mon"). He had a cousin named Mark Lemongello who was a professional baseball player in the major leagues (late '70s).
Trivia tidbit: In Martin Scorsese's The Irishman Joey Gallo gets whacked at Umberto's Clam House after a celebratory evening at the Copacabana where Jerry Vale (Steven Van Zandt) is the featured singer. But in the real life incident in 1972, Gallo had actually been at the Copacabana enjoying Peter Lemongello's performance.
― Josefa, Friday, 8 October 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
I will concede that it's possible that forks's sister had a student named Lemongelo after the surname Lemongello, but it would be an incredible coincidence, given that I've been hearing since I was a kid that somebody's sister or cousin or sister's cousin totally had a student named "Lemonjello" with a stress on the first o, they swear, why would they lie.
― JRN, Friday, 8 October 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
She swears, why would she lie?Tbf I don’t always trust my sister so…
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 October 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
some context here
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 8 October 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSBVuImIFkQ
Lemonjelly.ky only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it named their kid something really weird.
― peace, man, Friday, 8 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
She don't use lemmonjello
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
Peter Crummey
― calstars, Sunday, 10 October 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
Joe Bott
― calstars, Sunday, 10 October 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
(Seen on political lawn signs)
― calstars, Sunday, 10 October 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
Neal Fresby
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 11 October 2021 00:55 (two years ago) link
Thanks again, Wiki:Matt Abts (born September 30, 1953) is an American drummer,[1] best known as one of the founding members of the rock band Gov't Mule... Abts joined (Warren) Haynes and Allen Woody, who had both been members of The Allman Brothers Band, to form Gov't Mule in 1994. Before that, Abts and Haynes played with Dickey Betts; Haynes and Woody also played with Dickey in The Allman Brothers Band.
― dow, Monday, 11 October 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
Matt Abts is merely impossible to pronounce so I'm assuming Allen Woody the abysmal name there?
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Monday, 11 October 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
Matt Abts, Allen Woody, Dickey Betts: I bow to all three (re xpost progression from abysmal to awesome), but especially the first, because, yes, say it and you sound like you're having a stroke ("LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GIVE IT UP FOR)
― dow, Monday, 11 October 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
Ed Gunts
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gunt
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
Turned the page in my beginners piano book and had a laugh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Schytte
― Dan I., Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
Blain Shortreed
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
Britt raised $3.8 million through the end of September, with contributions from the political operations of Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McQueer
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Friday, 31 December 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
Likely abysmal person also
https://i.imgur.com/QxQj7ZY.png
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 05:47 (two years ago) link
Fr@nk D0d00
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 28 January 2022 06:38 (two years ago) link
RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Raper
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 11 February 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link
RIP Jacques Poos
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 21 February 2022 05:01 (two years ago) link
Brent Leggs
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 28 February 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
writer on svu today appears to be called Speed Weed
― koogs, Thursday, 10 March 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
oh,
Great Real Names
― koogs, Thursday, 10 March 2022 10:22 (two years ago) link
Mordaunt Hall
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:43 (two years ago) link
(Constable) Grenville Bint
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 April 2022 09:05 (one year ago) link
A young Italian tennis player who's just qualified for the main draw at Santa Margherita di Pula is named Benito Massacri.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
Damian Eggs
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
J. David Sweatt
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Monday, 30 May 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Tenille Arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenille_Arts
Sounds like a small college focusing on 70s soft rock and muskrat biology.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 9 July 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
Several years ago a family in the local area named their son Walt Disney Christmas:https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5358651.disney-he-look-like-his-father/
Thus giving him the full name Walt Disney Christmas Pain (his dad's surname is Pain). "Dad Nicholas David, who celebrated his 40th birthday on New Year's Eve, is such a big fan of Disney, he had Snow White and all seven dwarves tattooed on his back at the age of 18." Imagine if that man had been a huge fan of early turbojet designs. He might have called his son Centrifugal Flow Jet Turbine Pain instead.
I used to know someone on Facebook called Lemon Otter, but that is of course a fantastic name: http://www.lemonzingers.co.uk/about-lemon.html
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 9 July 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Boris Johnson
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Alexander is his real first name btw.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Yes, which makes his decision to go by "Boris" even more puzzling.
Also: Elon Musk.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
More memorable. When you say Boris everybody knows who you're referring too. I'm not sure if it's true, but I've heard his family call him Alexander.
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
I always think of "Boris the Spider."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 July 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
Orson Ossman, son of Firesign Theatre member David Ossman. Named after Orson Welles.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 9 July 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Petronella Wyatt came up yesterday
petronella? middle name Aspasia.
― koogs, Sunday, 10 July 2022 07:56 (one year ago) link
Sebastian Bear-McClard
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
https://drjohnnydrain.com/
― Tom D: panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 July 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
Izzy Posen
― peace, man, Sunday, 24 July 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
Amanda Rock
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
Hatchet M. Speed
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 8 September 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
not so much abysmal but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo_Ondimba
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 07:43 (one year ago) link
mainly because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Bongo_(magician)
― koogs, Friday, 9 September 2022 07:44 (one year ago) link