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Presenting.....the Verbal Gerbil! ©
Wordplay, spam poetry,
random musings
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Fun
With Spam
Making spamwiches
out of
spam
Or, what to do with junk e-mail
My original e-mail
address has over the years become an easy target of
spam mailers,
despite installing
all manner of blocks and filters and the spaminator
and all that. Eventually
I gave up,
switching operations over to several new e-mail addresses I still
hang on to my original address, not out of nostalgia, but to use when
registration of a legitimate e-mail address is necessary. I know those
registrations trigger the spam-bots, but at least this way most of the
spam gets funneled into one place, which I ignore most of the time.
Every week or so I
go through the hundreds (and hundreds) of spam
mail messages, deleting one after another, barely glancing to see if
there is a
name I might recognize. Because there rarely is. But the other
names! Wow! This weekly chore is enlivened by the
variety of names the spam-bots create to tempt the recipient into
reading the message.
As a screenwriter
I'm always naming characters,
and I put a lot of thought into that task -- trying to find the balance
between something memorable and readable and representative of the
character, while
avoiding clichés like Detective Nick [insert-name-of-gun] or
(worse) names which have already been used.
So when I see the
list of randomly generated names created by the
spam-bots, I can't help
but be impressed.
Fresh, colorful, evocative -- what characters these
names could be!
If you're a writer,
remember: the next time you're taking out the
cyber trash, double-check -- there could be some inspiration in all
that junk.
Best
of Spam Name List
Updated weekly,
or as the mood strikes
Delbert
Joyner
Viola
Shook
Ferdinand Jernigan
Edith
Bledsoe
Tanisha
Micawber
Jugg Stefan
Augustine
Denton
Colby
Santana
Socorro
Tidwell
Fidel
Vernon
Aurelia
Blankenship
Hoarder J. Launched
Pablo K.
Unwiser
Kari M.
Askew
Marcello
Perdue
Cordula
Chantal
Leopoldo
Kaufman
Reuven Verne
Chrysanthos
Kush
Khodadad
Chamorro
Elmo Whalen
Scrubbiest
D.* Disregards Peppi
Manner
Dulcine Hickey
(*the middle
initial must be to
distinguish this Mr. Disregards
from all the other Scrubbiest
Disregards out there...)
Dante
Petty
Shawna Tovar
Grady Blevins
Tully
Weiner
Whispering I. Constructed Lorne Knarr
Yemima
Petzold
Sansome
Ostrow
Warp A. Pronto
Diggory
Troy
Charlemagne
Clerk
Siggal Lippincot
Otille
Gingras
Fortin
Michel
Melanomata G. Primed
Francisco
Knox
Amparo
Darling
Ezra Raspberry
Kriemhilde
Tuff
Viola
Holscher
Van Vega
Philo
Wrinkle
Aludra
Cantero
Contini Bert
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Spam
Poetry
The spam-bot
not only creates delectable names, it
makes poetry! those random snippets
of gibberish which
fill out the subject lines and pseudo-message blocks
in some spam
mailings percolate
with potential import ... (more)
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