Thursday, January 26, 2006

Need pseudonyms? Look no farther than your spam email bin

Among the alleged senders of spam to me in the last few days were characters who identified themselves as:

Francisco Bouchard
Oxidize E. Destructivene
Sirloins H. Smirching
Doyens A. Connoting
Console H. Cyrano
Exultant H. Cenotaphs
Prefabrication T. Edison

Yow! I would love to have a correspondent named Sirloins H. Smirching or Exultant H. Cenotaphs. (Why so many middle initial H's, and do they all have the same middle name as Jesus Christ?)

Then again, I just selected a pseudonym from the list of long-dead cast members of The Big Sleep. Endless lists of forgotten Hollywood bit players are great sources for names for characters in your novels and so forth.

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