Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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Charles 'mutation' Darwin



I remember once being told how some social Darwinists had conducted research on the 'mutation rate' of names. They'd discovered that 1% of names (in the US) were spelling variants of other names, minor adaptions to the name 'gene' and that an amazing 0.1% of them were totally original. 1 in 1,000 names had no clear link to any prior registered name, which to me is a very rapid rate of mutation.

Now I'm wondering what kind of rococo cataclysm has brought such adaptive behaviour in the spam world to have given me these 'variants' just this morning (I love these):

Airbourne H. Bibliophile
Langour L. Pretend
and
Ideologically H. Kremlin


What happened out there? I nearly feel sorry for those poor people...
Yours,
Rolondo D. Townsend


posted by andrew atkinson at 9:21 AM  

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