29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
9:05 p.m.
On 6/29/2006 at 9:02 PM Don Y wrote:
David Griffith wrote:
[intentionally bogus streetnames]
> I was told a story about how the Thomas Guide people did this, naming an
> unremarkable alley in the LA area the "Mark and Brian Expressway" after
a
> rather colorful pair of morning disk jockeys.
Later when the city
decided
> to redo street signs, they used the Thomas Guide
and thus ordered and
> installed signs marking this particular alley.
Rand McNally does that routinely. They create a few bogus towns or
geographical markers to thwart copying. I've heard that some music
publishers will also put in intentional typos (say, the wrong number of
beats in a bar or a superfluous accidental) to brand their work.
I like to do a similar thing with online forms that require your name and
email. I create a throwaway email address and then make up a name and
address. I'm still getting spam offering really great mortgage rates to
someone called David Marquez in Juneau. But I never did get anything for
Consuelo O'Brien of Barrow.
I'm looking for Carl LaFong....that's Big C small a small r small l...
Cheers,
Chuck