We get calls on our cell phones pretty frequently that are from unknown callers; they rarely leave messages, but you can tell the callers are probably con artists, cold-calling sales people, spammers, etc. Although we never pick up, for laughs I sometimes Google the number. Often what will happen is I find the number, and a bunch of other numbers having the same area code and first three digits, and the "names" of the people associated with the numbers. Here are some names that cropped up on a page of similar numbers from Colorado Springs; they sound 100% genuine to me:
Satyen Cwynar
Schmuel Harding
Zavier Clow
Gardnard Dropkin
Quant Gash
Crockett Hudack
Ubrigg Squadrito
Catcher Wahlert
Katherine Wildfong
Callhoun Delatte
Someone has a vivid imagination .....
ReplyDeleteSome of those names are positively Dickensian.
ReplyDeleteOthers remind me of W.C. Fields.
Someone needs a better https://randomwordgenerator.com/name.phprandom name generator.
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Off topic, but this is fascinating.
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Humanity is so inventive.
Quant Gash? I'd be very careful how I pronounced that.
ReplyDeleteBrings to me a biography I read of William S Burroughs. There was a photo of young Bill in his school days at Los Alamos Ranch; his classmates had some pretty weird names. Just off the top of my head, there was Hep Blaffer and Stamps Farish.
When we're frustrated with someone we may call them a 'dropkick':
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Maybe a dropkin is a dropkick in the larval stage.
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