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Subject:Re: What kind of names do you make up? From:"Amy G. Peacock" <apeacock -at- WOLFENET -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:39:05 -0700
I like to have fun with this too. I work for a restaurant management
company and so I get to make up menu items. Tuna Suprise anyone?
Also, I create the name of vendors using the names of my pets. one of
my cats was name Hamlet so I named one vendor "Hamlet's Hairball
Emporium."
As for the names of people I usually stick with plain
boring stuff like John Smith and Mary Jones as well as using my own
name. I use fake ssns and address etc. though.
Amy Peacock
techwriter & jewelrymaker
Snohomish, Washington
apeacock -at- wolfenet -dot- com
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