Far Out Names

[playthrough]

The city mag where I live has a dining editor named Twinkle Van Winkle. And it is indeed her given name.

I went to high school with a guy whose full name was Winston Miller Ford. We joked that he must have been born during a Nascar race.

 

[justgladtobehere]

My cousin's high school clashmate's mother taught a set of twins named Orangello and Lemongello.

 

[Flip Wilson]

I offer up these two.

A reserve lineman at Baylor one season was named Hunter Hunter.

when I worked at a mall photo lab a buncha years ago, the yogurt store around the corner that had really good chicken salad sandwiches was managed by a lady named Ginger Snapp. She told me once that if she ever got married, she was keeping her name.

Turns out, Ginger died in 2001.

https://www.whbfamily.com/obituaries/Ginger-Snapp?obId=658356

 

[PCLoadLetter]

In high school, my best friend's brother had a buddy named Tab.

His dad was an executive at Coca-Cola.

 

[da man]

My cousin's high school clashmate's mother taught a set of twins named Orangello and Lemongello.

Outing alert! @justgladtobehere is Dan Jenkins!

BTW, how's Potatus Fry doing these days?

 

[da man]

The city mag where I live has a dining editor named Twinkle Van Winkle. And it is indeed her given name.

I went to high school with a guy whose full name was Winston Miller Ford. We joked that he must have been born during a Nascar race.

Born to be a car dealer.

 

[da man]

I can't believe I forgot deck!

Which reminds me: Woody Johnson.

For some reason this also got me thinking of Vitas Gerulaitis.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Outing alert! @justgladtobehere is Dan Jenkins!

BTW, how's Potatus Fry doing these days?

I had somebody tell me this story and I immediately called bullship. But he said the woman who told him was the sister or daughter of the teacher. A close relationship, so it wasn't presented as some silly example of playing Telephone. I guess she just wanted to fork with him.

[Edit] Dan Jenkins Lemonjello - Google Search

The first link is a Charlie Pierce Tweet and the second is a link to this site.

Dan Jenkins to be inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I once shot pictures at a little league game featuring a kid named Chandler Bing. My spit take was not appreciated.

Could you have BEEN any more surprised?

 

[Driftwood]

The Jell-O twins have been in every high school in America, it seems. I think it's been told so much that some people honestly believe they met them. One of them is my sister-in-law, who is a retired teacher at a tiny high school in the middle of nowhere North Carolina. More than once she's said, "We had these brothers..." I just let her say it and think to myself, "No, you didn't." It's not worth it.

 

[Songbird]

Joseph Joseph.

3 of a kind beats a pair.

Joseph Joseph Joseph of Bennington died 12 years ago.

 

[swingline]

At one stop we covered twin brothers who were named Joe and Joseph. Seriously, what the?