Wednesday, July 18, 2007

What's In A Name?

It's a trivial thing, but I was scouring through my spam box this morning, and was struck by the colour of some of the senders' names.

Names like...
Jordan Lavender - which sounds more like a porn star name (not, that I'd know anything about that, of course)
Coleman Q Mag - who?
Augustine Hollbrook - who one might expect to have a holiday home in the Hamptons.
Guadalupe Hewitt - a bit of cross culture creeping in there.
Jesus Hopkins - isn't that a hospital somewhere?
Montague O Fortune - would look great on a business card.
or
Wilburn Bautista - sounds like he should be running a revolution in Central America.

I know they're made up, (and the more spam I get, the more I have come to realise those behind the spam definitely don't speak English as a first language) but seriously, common English names are not hard to come by, are they?

3 comments:

pitfinder said...

Stuff I found:


http://www.candyfavorites.com/Lavender-Jordan-Almonds-pr-879.html


1st Jordan Lavender. HTA. 39. Imp. Male Black Belt 12-13 yrs. 42-46 kg.



:-)

B. said...

Montague O Fortune is going to be my new alias.

e said...

Dang. I was going to take Montague O Fortune! Ok, I'll be Wilburn, then.