an odd coincidence

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2004)

I just learned today in the New Yorker magazine, that in 1937 Cole Porter was in a horse riding accident in which his legs were severely damaged, the New Yorker says: "but Porter's talent for masquerade, for turning life's griefs and glories into an impudent game, didn't end there. In gruelling pain for decades after the accident, forced to walk with braces and canes, he nonetheless had the humor to give his lame legs names: the left he christened JOSEPHINE, the right GERALDINE," ***(KING COLE by JOHN LAHR The not so merry soul of Cole Porter. Issue of 2004-07-12 and 19 Posted 2004-07-05)***
These are the names that Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon decided upon before Jack decided that he'd rather be Daphne. Is that a strange coincidence or what?