I get a lot of spam emails. A lot. Most of them I never see due to my spam filter, but recent email problems meant I had to sort through them by hand. During this dull process I noticed that, as always, spammers disguise their real names with phony ones. But I also noticed that some spammers are getting a bit more creative and apparently using some sort of random access to a database of names/words to make up an endless variety of fake names.

Some of the results are quite goofy and Goonish/Pythonesque. Some recent ones were:

• Eight R. Straggles
• Stratagem B. Shipyard
• Fatalist H. Faraway
• Grunt P. Foreclose
• Beards T. Lively
• Gamma F. Transfusion
• Constance V. Barrage
• Swooned H. Stimson
• Resettle D. Outrigger
• Dogcatchers G. Abbess
• Checker G. Canards
• Balminess Q. Crawl
• Threatenings L. Chortle
• Sandy L. Gasping
• Flap C. Kerouac
• Nonfiction H. Miraculously
• Shrieking P. Delano
• Superficial I. Incumbent
• Dillydallied H. Yevtushenko
• Heliport S. Persecuting
• Handgun H. Deficient
• Churlishness H. Folk
• Striker M. Vistas
• Denver G. Commonwealth
• Discotheque H. Artificer
• Appeasement E. Percolated
• Injection V. Brenda
• Projectile S. Scuzzier
• Feting U. Deleterious
• Stereo Q. Sectarianism
• Infringement R. Swampiest
• Hesiod A. Probationer

The ones in bold are the ones I like so much I’m going to try and use them in a script or even in conversation. Such as “Wasn’t that written by the poet Grunt P. Foreclose?”, or “Wasn’t he killed by the gangster Shrieking P. Delano?”.