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Subject:Re: What kind of names do you make up? From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:35:54 -0700
At 10:12 AM 6/10/99 -0700, Darren Barefoot wrote:
>Creating fake names in sample databases is a major source of mischievous
>glee for our department. In our current product, you'll find the names of
>boyfriends, girlfriends, former high school teachers, underachieving
>Vancouver Canucks and Frank Zappa's band.
I like to use the original names of dead movie stars. Frances Gumm, anyone?
--Wayne
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