Friday, July 30, 2004

The Weetabixes of Gdansk

Is it just me, or do other people enjoy the bizarre names generated by spam mailers? Just this morning, my webmail account has had messages from "Addicted Q. Redrafting" and "Gigged M. Aqueducts". I like my daily peek into the alternative worlds of, in this case, A.Q.Redrafting and Partners, the world's least productive architects. I'm not keen enough that I actually open the emails, of course.

Which reminds me that back in the distant days before spam, even before Canter & Siegel and their wretched Green Card Lottery, I used to sign my own emails "Sebastian P. Weetabix". You couldn't do it now, of course. Anyway, I stopped doing it when an Israeli friend asked me why I'd adopted a Polish pseudonym.


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