My friend Alan, over at WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?, posted a while back about starting a list of character names taken from spam e-mails he was getting. I thought it was a great idea and am now addicted to it. One of these days I should write short character bios for all of these people. A great deal of my spam is all in Asian character forms from one language or another, but occasionally I do get names I can grasp and here is a list of them so far:
Bautista Law
Efrain Curran
Goodman Blankenship
Grover Lancaster
Gustavo Horn
Guthrie Wiseman
Latricia Season
Mercer Strong
Nakesha Robbi
Odessa Slaughter
Parthenia Eloise
Rosalinda Vargas
Saul Coulte
Seema Tiara
Of course I have a soft spot for Odessa Slaughter. I'm not sure, but I think she might be a private investigator living in a techno-punk future world where she gets the information she wants from people by whispering neural hacks into their ears with a sultry voice that makes them feel like having they're brain hacked is as good as Sex.
[Note: After a quick google, it would seem "Odessa Slaughter" is ocassionally used to describe the Odessa massacre of the Jewish population of Odessa, Russia in 1941-42. I don't know if that makes appropriating the name better or worse.]
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