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Message no. 1
From: "Timothy D. Shea" <analog-kid@****.COM>
Subject: City Life
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:59:59 EDT
I like the idea, and I would be interested in contributing. If you are
interested in people's names, I have a great solution (I have the WORST
time with coming up with names). I work at a call answering service for
several different companies, and spend my days taking the names and
addresses from people all across the US and Canada. I have plenty of
realistic names for my games now (except for classic fantasy settings).
If you like I can send some out daily.


Timothy Shea

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Message no. 2
From: Jarle_Nygård <jnygaard@***.NET>
Subject: Re: City Life
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:08:52 +0200
Please do send out some names, a list over exotic names would be an excelent
idea I think!

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>I like the idea, and I would be interested in contributing. If you are
>interested in people's names, I have a great solution (I have the WORST
>time with coming up with names). I work at a call answering service for
>several different companies, and spend my days taking the names and
>addresses from people all across the US and Canada. I have plenty of
>realistic names for my games now (except for classic fantasy settings).
>If you like I can send some out daily.
>
>
> Timothy Shea
>
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>You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
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Message no. 3
From: "Timothy D. Shea" <analog-kid@****.COM>
Subject: City Life
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:18:33 EDT
The reason why I offered to post names is because the ones I would gather
would not be unique or exotic, but normal, everyday beleivable names of
real people. Some that I collected today (To be used in my next GURPS
game):
(In the order taken)

Cathy Ingebrigten
James Garner
James Gergen
Dan Kinman
Kimberly Tavel
Pamela Dalrymple
Walter Berkes
Evelyn Minter
Adriana Murillo
Dion Cooper
Janice Wilson
Tom Frenette
Carmen Rivera
Perry Snyder
Rhonda Tiedemann
George Washington (this isn't a joke)
Margaret Castania
Tiffany Henderson
James Roy
Kathleen Roy (two different call from separate corners of the country
right after each other)
Jack White
Sally White (ditto)
Shirley Brown
Lyndon Collier



Timothy Shea

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Message no. 4
From: Geoff Skellams <geoff.skellams@*********.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: City Life
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:34:04 +1000
On Net Enhancements for Roleplaying Shadowrun, Timothy D.
Shea[SMTP:analog-kid@****.COM] wrote:
> The reason why I offered to post names is because the ones I would
gather
> would not be unique or exotic, but normal, everyday beleivable names
of
> real people. Some that I collected today (To be used in my next GURPS
> game):

If you want a really quick way of getting believeable names, it only
takes 2 books.

The first and most important is the phone book. If you want a name, open
the white pages at random and jab your finger down. The name under it is
a good starting point for the surname (unless you happen to get a
business name).

The other book which I find invaluable is the book of baby names my wife
and I bought before our son was born. You use it in the same sort of way
as the phone book - open the book randomly and jam your finger down and
use what you find (or you can be more pedantic and pick a name that
means something similar to the role the character will be playing).

The name book we bought was a multicultural one, that not only has the
normal run of the mill names, but it also has names from other cultures,
including Japanese, Hawaiian, Arabic, African, Hebrew, &c. It has quite
a detailed meaning for each name, if applicable, it gives example of
famous or prominent people with that name, as well as a list of
derivatives or variations. In the back of the book, there is a list of
names broken up according to themes (sports, aviation, business, &c).
It's called "Baby Names for the New Century". I did a quick look up of
it at Amazon.com and found it at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061007536/002-0292105-1362018

If you are looking for a names book, I can thoroughly recommend this
one. It's not only good for picking names for your kids, it's invaluable
for coming up with names for characters and NPCS :)

cheers
G

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Message no. 5
From: Malcolm Iggleden <m_iggleden@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: City Life
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 03:02:07 PDT
>
>I like the idea, and I would be interested in contributing. If you are
>interested in people's names, I have a great solution (I have the WORST
>time with coming up with names). I work at a call answering service
for
>several different companies, and spend my days taking the names and
>addresses from people all across the US and Canada. I have plenty of
>realistic names for my games now (except for classic fantasy settings).
>If you like I can send some out daily.
>
>
> Timothy Shea

Tim, Smart Idea.

I'd love some names, I'd also contribute to a City life project.

Midnight Mak


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