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Subject: Re: Generation of peoples names
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I call the software that generates the credits at the end of a movie
a "name generator", so I was pleased to see this post.

Speaking of movies, Have you seen the movie Buckaroo Bonzai?



17             John Sabatini                           17:17 6sep96



Len Jones (ljones@ivory.trentu.ca) wrote:
: In article <504lc7$h8r@soap.news.pipex.net>, Andy.Clark@dial.pipex.com (Andy Clark) writes:
: >Hi,
: >	I have the task of generating some test data for a personnel system,
: >this needs lots of people names, approx 2000+. I have a simple
: >algorithm which picks a random start, middle and end from a selection
: >I provide. 
: >
: >This produces results such as
: >
: >Mr Bloom
: >Mrs Pratt
: >Prof Queg
: >Dr Dad
: >Mr Sot
: >
: >Are there other ways of generating more realistic names?
: >Any ideas for first names? Does anyone have statistics for the lengths
: >(in phonems) of names and the number of forenames people have.
: >
: >Cheers,
: >	Andy Clark
: >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: >Just switch off your Internet set and go do something less boring instead!
: >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: >

: Why not try a phone directory on CD-ROM.

: len jones



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