Hippie poet "Sparrow" ponders the odd beauty of wacky names attached to spam in a New York Times op-ed piece:
I remember the first unsolicited commercial e-mail message (otherwise known as spam) I received. It began with a friendly greeting: "Hello Sparquee." It went on to offer me various drugs like Valium and Viagra, "no prescription needed." The name Sparquee was a total surprise, but it made sense. It combines my name, Sparrow, with that harpooner from "Moby Dick," Queequeg. (…)
I love these names — temporary, awkward, apt. They seem expressive of my inner selves. Sparky799 is my party personality; Souciep is my suave, artistic persona. Soowee, though mildly insulting (it is a call for pigs), is my abrasive side. Sparlin combines my name with that of my hero, Abraham Lincoln.
