{"id":1545,"date":"2003-11-05T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2003-11-06T05:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/11\/05\/1545.html"},"modified":"2003-11-05T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2003-11-06T05:05:24","slug":"solo-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/11\/05\/solo-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Received bunches of spam messages today with subject line \"Solo Pay.\"  Would've just discarded them, but was struck by the lovely randomly generated names given on the From lines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ecstasy Q. Movingly<\/li>\n<li>Clinicians K. Lethargy<\/li>\n<li>Cucumbers B. Calculus<\/li>\n<li>Boyd R. Exterior<\/li>\n<li>Celtics G. Prelude<\/li>\n<li>Assailable I. Postwar<\/li>\n<li>Operates C. Watchmaker<\/li>\n<li>Landings U. Discolorations<\/li>\n<li>Disemboweled F. Breakdowns<\/li>\n<li>Outvoting H. Snows<\/li>\n<li>Vegetative R. Leavening<\/li>\n<li>Satellite H. Hindsight<\/li>\n<li>Deletion G. Karyn<\/li>\n<li>Mostly C. Fief<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I want to use these in a story.  Cucumbers B. Calculus is indubitably some relative of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tintinmilou.free.fr\/tournesol\/indexuk.htm\">Professor Cuthbert Calculus<\/a> (apparently named Le Professor Tournesol (Sunflower) in the original French?), a nerdy kid with glasses and a pedantic air who designs (in honor of Howard Waldrop's latest <cite>Sci Fiction<\/cite> story) soapbox racers; Ecstasy Q. Movingly is of course a star of adult films and a femme fatale; Boyd R. Exterior is our dockworker hero (I just saw <cite>On the Waterfront<\/cite> for the first time the other week); Vegetative R. Leavening is a spacey New Age chemist; Satellite H. Hindsight is the brilliant but absentminded professor whose daughter Boyd is in love with.  And so on.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrononaut.org\/log\/archives\/000234.html\">zeppelins<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n<p>(David, did you know that that page is the first thing that comes up if you Google for zeppelin moles, without quotes?)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received bunches of spam messages today with subject line &#8220;Solo Pay.&#8221; Would&#8217;ve just discarded them, but was struck by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}