{"id":13357,"date":"2010-10-18T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/10\/18\/spammer-names.html"},"modified":"2010-10-18T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:41:00","slug":"spammer-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/10\/18\/spammer-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammer names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Still clearing out old comment spam, but close to done.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, spambots either enter non-name phrases into the Name box or use pretty ordinary names. But I just noticed a cluster of intriguing ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Conway Hound in the Plain<\/li>\n  <li>Chalmers House of Lords<\/li>\n  <li>Culbert Cool and Brilliant<\/li>\n  <li>Bartholomew Warlike<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I Googled a couple of the phrases, and found that they're the meanings of the names, from baby-name kinds of sites.<\/p>\n<p>Which is pretty prosaic after all; the spambots are just taking a first name and tacking on the name's meaning. But I do like the phrase &ldquo;Culbert Cool and Brilliant&rdquo;; maybe it's part of the same series as <cite>Sarah, Plain and Tall<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>(Okay, it turns out that there really is a series, and the other books don't have titles like that. But it's still a good joke, so I'll leave it.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still clearing out old comment spam, but close to done. Most of the time, spambots either enter non-name phrases into the Name box or use pretty ordinary names. But I&#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":[28,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names","category-spam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}