Slate.com has created a device that will generate a pseudonym for you.
It is called the Carlos Danger Name Generator.
Click here to go to the site.
You too can have a really cool handle behind which you can do things that should remain secret.
Just for the record, my alternate name is Antonio Hazard.
What’s yours?
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It only remains a “secret” if you don’t advertise your “alter ego” pseudonym!!! Lol.
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Mine is Guillermo Calamity.
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Pascual Trouble
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The teacher formerly known as Princess.
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None of these, including Carlos Danger, can top Michael Vick’s “Ron Mexico.”
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Hello everyone! I am now known as FELICIANO DEATH! heeheehee
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Reblogged this on Ladyserenity's Weblog and commented:
Danger Koi’s a bit fishy. Don’t you think?
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Marcelino Badass
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laughing incontrollably!
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uncontrollably;o)
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I guess we’re related. I am Leandro Badass.
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Gustavo Catastrophe. I kind of like it. Except I’m not a dude.
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I have the same name! I think all the generated names are male ones.
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Javier Verboten!
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I’m also Verboten – Armando, that is.
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Je m’appelle est Eduardo Verboten – the funny thing is that I use that word on occassion to get a student’s attention. They look at me funny and then I tell them what it means.
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Welcome to the family!
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A sexting “look what I have” scrawny pseudonymed politician obsessed with exhibitionism and portable devices . . .
A de-throned governor once hailed for his fights against the hubristic and destructive Wall Street, but now who has who morphed into a sex fiend, sneaking behind his wife’s back with high gloss call girls dressed in Prada and Burberry’s. . . . and who is now charter school friendly . . . .
Who ARE these people?
NY CIty politics used to be full of vitriol and passion. . . now it has become little more than a freak show. . . step right up folks and peer into the fun house mirrors of grotesquely distorted and contorted narcissism and self aggrandizement. . . . . get your tickets now. . . .
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No need to malign thin people, Robert.
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I’m one of the least moralistic people I know, much to my mother’s disappointment. That said, the only question I have about Weiner and Spitzer is which one is more repugnant. I truly can’t decide.
Weiner’s escapades blow far past the line of mere personal failings. At a minimum, they show that he has horrendous judgment, that he has pathological problems that are beyond his control, and that he will tell any lie, no matter how ridiculous, to get himself through another day. On top of that, if you talk to anyone who’s worked for him, or even with him, you will hear that he is a bully and tyrant of the highest order, someone who has no qualms about screaming at and degrading subordinates. This is the kind of guy who should not be in any position of power, ever.
Spitzer may have a similar management style — I don’t know as much about that. But his scandal earns him extra demerits because the sheer scale of his hypocrisy. As the New York AG, he bulled around Wall Street with threats and indictments and subpoenas. Everybody lapped up the Wyatt Earp routine, but what was the endgame? A lot of money for the big law firms (I’m not complaining, but let’s be clear about cui bono) that conducted internal investigations. Modest fines for the corporate targets.
[In almost every case, this was how it worked: (1) Spitzer’s office issues a document subpoena and threatens indictment; (2) the corporation calls in the white shoe law firm and tells Spitzer it will cooperate; (3) the law firm collects and reviews a zillion documents and interviews 50 mid- to low-level management employees; (4) the law firm concludes that a handful of these employees acted unethically, as “rogues” of course; (5) the corporation fires the rogues; (6) the law firm reports back to Spitzer to say the problem’s been dealt with; and (7) Spitzer says ok, write a check for $100 million and we’ll put this behind us. Oh and of course, there was restitution for the victims — a lot of checks for $10,000 to victims like Ford Motor and General Mills. Meanwhile, the lives and careers of the “rogues” are ruined. Fired for misconduct at age 55, often with health problems, usually with minimal savings and a 401k they probably started too late in life. Truly, truly depressing stuff.]
Then the campaign for governor based on his rep as the Ethics Guy, the incorruptible sheriff who was going to clean up state government. Then the governorship, where he used state police to spy on political enemies. The guy is a walking abuse of power, and his trysts just show that he views the law as political tool, and certainly as not something that applied to himself. I see no set of circumstances in which it’s possible that Scott Stringer is not a better choice for Comptroller than Eliot Spitzer, not even if Stringer is completely incompetent.
So I’m feeling like it’s a tossup between Weiner and Spitzer. Spitzer’s only real advantage in that matchup is that he’s running for the less consequential office.
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I was born and raised in a heavily Italian section of Brooklyn, so I will go with “Meatballs Maestra”. But if Weiner becomes mayor, I will remain the city “Pazzo di Nuova”
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My sexting pseudonym is Dario Distress, according to @Slate’s Carlos Danger Name Generator http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2013/07/carlos_danger_name_generator_use_our_widget_to_get_a_name_like_anthony_weiner.html
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New York has hundreds if not thousands of people that could hold these positions of mayor or comptroller. Why would someone vote for a person that is more interested in serving his own personal pleasures than serving his constitutes?
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Because people still believe in the spin. They see Weiner as the fighter for the middle class when in fact he is nothing more than a pol saying the things people want to hear. Progressives want to believe that man still exists.
They see Spitzer as someone who will reform Wall Street when in fact he needs Wall Street now and will do hurdles to get their backing.
If both men win, it will be a fight to see who can get the attention of the media first and both will try to outshine Cuomo–another neoliberal. It will be the fight of the egos over the good of the city. And both men will think because they were elected, they are invincible. The sexcapades will elevate.
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I know this is not supposed to be taken seriously, but why do all of these generated pseudonyms have Latinesque first names? Seems to be a bias, no? What happened to names in English, Swedish, Russian, Swahili, Japanese, etc.?
I put in my first name with my maiden name, my first married name and my new five-day-old married name and I got Bernardo, Frederico, and Emilio for first names despite my first name being the same each time. I wonder what would happen if I put in any of the names they gave me? My guess: more randomness.
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LG, the generator is based on Anthony Weiner’s choice of Carlos Danger.
So every first name is male and Hispanic, and every last line suggests danger.
No bias, just humor.
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Ah, thank you for the explanation. Now a bigger question is why did Weiner choose “Carlos” for a handle? Did he think he was Don Juan? Well, we all know what happens to him…
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Jay Leno had an interesting theory….He wanted to know if Weiner was trying to get the Latino vote.
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Well that would explain a lot.
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I am Ernesto Verboten!
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That’s the best one, yet.
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I think Anthony Weiner’s name should be Peter Tweeter!
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Or teenie weenie. 🙂
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+1
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Carlos Violence. ???
Yikes. Me not like.
I prefer Best.
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Humm – Mike Weston yields “Enrique Death”;
Michael Weston’s alter is “Jaime Sly”.
I’m campaigning for a School Board seat in Hillsborough County Fl; which do you think I should use for my campaign texts?
If I were a School Rhee-former, either might be appropriate. However, I am an advocate of quality, accessible education. Hard call…
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Osvaldo Gamble
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I think he played for the Yankees in the early 80s.
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Yes, and he had the most impressive Afro in baseball, until Steinbrenner made him cut it.
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Made U. L. Washington look like Mr. Clean.
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Wouldn’t the best pseudonym for Anthony Weiner be “Stupid Idiot”?
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Not sure that would have played well with his sexy Tweeters Mr. Rendo.
Dos-timing Husbando??? Maybe diez because he admitted to more texting since his resignation.
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Gustavo Catastrophe checking in!
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Andres Clandestine. Fits me perfectly!
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Felipe Stealth here…
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Hmmm. Is he related to the Apalachicola Stealths? Maybe we’re cousins.
Jose Maria Stealth.
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The scary thing is that if Weiner (Senior Danger) were elected to the office of mayor he would be the chief administrator over NYC’s school system. Even though he has not been charged or convicted of any wrong doing, he clearly has predilections that would keep him from coming on a school campus even as a parent in most places. Surely to goodness will someone out there in the Democratic Party pull the plug (pun alert) on this guy?
P.S. If you are a Colbert/Stewart fan you have had some good laughs this week.
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Me llamo Sick Puppy.
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Pseudonym or no pseudonym, this is all so hilarious and horrible. Ultimately and permanently, it resides in the latter.
Can’t you see thousands of parents breaking down the doors to get their kids under the educational umbrella of Anthony Weiner with declarations like, “I just have to have my little Melissa and Johnny in a system where the guy in charge is sending naked photos of himself to women outside his marriage. This is a major paradigm shift that I know my child will benefit from. I am taking my kids out of Spence (a very expensive tony private school) and putting him in one of Weiner’s public or charter schools!”
This guy should be banned from being in charge of minors in the public realm. Period, end of story.
Really, it’s too bad, because when he was active in NYC poltiics, his moves and rhetoric were reasonably populist and working class.
What happened to him? Did the power go to his head? Did he get a really great calling plan?
A power house and effective former deputy superintendent of mine once said to the entire faculty of the district, “Do not engage in any behavior that you would not want on the front cover of a newspaper or that you would not want your mother to know about. That’s how you gauge what you should say and do as you continue your careers as public servants.” He was especially referring to this in the context of social media and internet. His were wise and empowering words, and he could not have been more correct.
Social media and information technology has not magnified narcissism, but they have facilitated putting one’s life up in big shiny bright lights that blink, advertising everything for everyone to see. You can make the accurate argument that it’s people who create problems and not technology. I agree with that non-negotiably. But I also think that social media, when not used for good is another kind of electronic substance abuse that potentially appeals to our base side. One simply does not have to work as hard to get and send informtation. Self absorption and its showcasing were never easier.
I am pro-public schools, and having Weiner have anything to do with them is ridiculous. I hope he drops out. It will have been one more pro-charter school/co-location and anti-local-school-control politician out of the race.
Why not just put La Ciocciolina in charge? She made it to the Italian Parliament. Or maybe we should ship Mr. Weiner off to Italy where he could possibly run for some kind of office and win, all in the presence of Berlusconi and Ms. Blond Cioccilina herself . . .
What next in the American circus of opportunity and self love? Zimmerman doing gun commercials? Spitzer lending his name to in the branding of birth control products? Lloyd Blankfein selling ceramic piggy banks that glow in the dark on QVC? Michelle Rhee selling multi-colored, mutli-cultural duct tape along on Home Shopping Network, all complete with a perky host to stand beside her, giggle a lot, and ooh- and aah at her product?
America seems to be one of the few society’s where the ruling class gets rewarded for doing the wrong thing, all in the name of forgiveness and the public’s mistaken notion of civilian-celebrity connection.
But Mr. Weiner’s attempts to be genuine won’t even work if here calls Oprah and asks for a confession/forgiveness interview. Tears, hugs, great lighting, and transfixed looks on faces of the upper middle class mostly white women in her audience. . . . nothing will work for him at this point. He has cried wolf too many times. . . . .
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“Did the power go to his head?” No, it went to another part of his anatomy. He had a serious brain drain.
“America seems to be one of the few society’s where the ruling class gets rewarded for doing the wrong thing, all in the name of forgiveness and the public’s mistaken notion of civilian-celebrity connection.”
Stupidity is not forgivable.
His actions are depraved and deplorable and I am disgusted. I hope enough others are too
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I personally do not care what he intended to do in private (and stupidly ended up doing in public) or why he did such things. While I do feel for his wife having endured a cheating husband myself during the end of our marriage, there are some affairs that are not my business. Unfortunately, his choices publicly humiliated her, and this is a travesty beyond words for her and her family. However, it is not my business to know nor is it to judge. If every single politician who cheated on his or her spouse (in any way) was exposed and asked to step down, we’d have a fractured government beyond repair. This does not mean that I condone lewd behavior on the part of any person, married or otherwise.
HOWEVER, what is most unforgivable to the public is the fact that he blatantly lied about the incident with the same conviction that he has argued the causes of the people. This is appalling and speaks to his character as a person. If he had acknowledged what he did, owned up to it, realized he needed help, and then stepped down, he could have had a chance to redeem himself in the public eye some time in the future. He did not admit to anything until after he lied to the public. The man needs to quietly bow out of the race and take up something more privately benign such as bee keeping or oil painting.
The only possible silver lining: If Weiner becomes synonymous with corporate charter reform, perhaps the idea will leave a bad taste in the mouths of those who have supported it up until this time. Putting him in bed (I know…bad analogy) with the wrong side of any political issue is a negative thing for said issue given his display of dishonesty. His backing of these reform ideas may actually help our cause. Am I twisted to think this way?
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Why can you get that we have to judge him? Do you know that Walcott wants any teacher who has alleged charges against them for sexual misconduct fired?? No due process. Meanwhile the world has seen this guy’s package and maybe you find that private, but I don’t. This guy cannot run our school system so he shouldn’t run for mayor since both jobs go hand in hand.
Secondly, this is not an affair. This is exposing yourself to strangers knowing those pics can be made public. And that in itself is disgusting and has nothing whatsoever to do with sex. The man needs to be in therapy, not running for office. And certainly not the next head of our schools.
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I’m not interested in what he does with his package–I’m disgusted by his dishonesty. Now if he violated a minor, I’d want him put away. He lied to the people. That is inexcusable, and he should just get out of public service. I would judge him for his blatant lying, yes.
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Ms. Cartwheel,
I agree with you.
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LG,
I loved what you had to say. You may be right.
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Only the lying bothers you??? I suppose we should throw out the concept of “role model” because nowadays anything goes. What a wonderful role model he is to the future of America. And when students start emulating his behavior and saying, “If the mayor can do it, so can I!!”, they wouldn’t be wrong.
Meanwhile that same role model called for the firing of school parent coordinators. I can only say my school has a wonderful parent coordinator who has put out many fires.
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You don’t need to convince me that he’s the wrong guy for mayor and/or to run a school system, but then again, no mayor should be running a school system.
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LG, no mayor should be running a school system?
You nailed it! Thanks.
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It’s your definition that this is only “sex” that really bothers me. If someone for instance watched porn in the privacy of his home, that’s one thing. However, let’s say this person uploaded photos of children, then that goes beyond the pale. In this care exposing himself to perfect strangers and expecting them to keep these photos and conversations private speaks to a flaw in his personal psychological makeup. One that indeed needs therapy and not a run for office. The first clue should have been his strong denial that nobody was buying. Yet he kept insisting it was a Right-wing cover up. A few of those pics were taken in government facilities. Another big reason for him to resign. Why people defend these actions as “private” is just mindboggling to me. And what really gets my goat is when people outside of NYC, mostly Progressives, think he is the best choice to bring down the Republicans. They also thought that of Obama. The truth is, you can only do that if you have a strong constituency which he did until he broke faith with them–and that includes me.
As a result, my district got punished. The Dems put up a horrible candidate who lost to a Republican Cuomo’s thinking was our district was still Democratic, so people wouldn’t care if he put up a lackey who didn’t even live in our district. The guy thought he was a shoe-in and didn’t take part in debates. It wasn’t until his poll numbers were low that the Democrats started to run a campaign. But do the Democrats ever learn….NO!!
This is all the result of Weiner. When a guy puts his penis and ego above common sense and yes decency, he has no business running for dog catcher.
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“It’s your definition that this is only ‘sex’ that really bothers me.”
I never said it was only ‘sex’–I said that what he did was supposed to be private. It appears that you are trying to say that those behaviors–that ought to be private behaviors–are inherently bad. What if he sent those photos to his wife? What if he wasn’t married and was sending them to his girlfriend? It seems you take issue because he sent them to “perfect strangers.” I do not think any of us have the authority to judge a person’s private actions unless he was accused of an actual crime against another person who is protected by law. If we cannot see the difference between public and private, we stand to harm our democracy.
“The first clue should have been his strong denial that nobody was buying. Yet he kept insisting it was a Right-wing cover up. A few of those pics were taken in government facilities. Another big reason for him to resign.”
That is where I call foul on the man as a public servant. He has armed the public with distrust by these particular actions.
“Why people defend these actions as ‘private’ is just mindboggling to me.”
Lying to the public is not private. Using a government facility for personal reasons outside of its intended purpose (such as using the bathroom) is not a private matter given the public purpose of the environment. Sending photos of yourself to an alleged paramour in your own private dwellings–whether it be your home or a hotel room that you have rented as you temporary private “home”–is private, under smarter circumstances. The mere fact that he was too stupid to realize that a) Nothing sent over the Internet on any website is completely private and b) One can easily “hit the wrong button” (as it were) and advertise any communication for all and sundry make him out to be a buffoon.
He is guilty of no crime, but he certainly is stupid, dishonest, and arrogant–these are the true personality flaws. We aren’t looking for him to be a husband to the public–we are looking to him to be an intelligent, honest, rational, and humble servant for the public good. The judgement of his personal, privately-intentioned antics should not even enter into it.
“And what really gets my goat is when people outside of NYC, mostly Progressives, think he is the best choice to bring down the Republicans. They also thought that of Obama. The truth is, you can only do that if you have a strong constituency which he did until he broke faith with them–and that includes me.”
You’re POd at the Democrats (Obama, Cuomo, et al.) AND the Republicans, and I don’t blame you considering the havoc wreaked on NY. I don’t think anyone here is endorsing Weiner, myself included. I’m flattered that you want so much to change my stance, but I cannot give up my personal convictions that public is public and private is private. It certainly is a fine line, and the danger of ambiguity contributes heavily to this debate. Should we endorse him? No. Is it because of his sexual appetite? No. It is because he is dishonest and without remorse for it. Yes. Would I want him to date my daughter. NO, but I cannot judge his right to be a sleeze-bag. It is a free country within the law to be one, and it is within the rights of the public to keep him out of office for whatever reasons the public may have for doing so. The bigger question: Does the public have more power than the Big Government Machine that supports Weiner? Let’s hope.
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I understand your POV public is public and private is private. But no way was this private with the exception of the parts he photographed. In an era when nothing is private, phones and emails can be hacked, and people want their 15 minutes of fame, judgment is everything. And once any information comes to light, voters have the right to take these actions into consideration.
I wish Weiner did have an affair, which this was not. He would still be in office because that would be between he and his wife. Sexual appetite? Ewwwww!!! This wasn’t about sex, it was about power. It was about having an ego that is above a code of ethics. (which Congress used to have and enforce, but now it depends on which party is in power). Twitter is just a new vehicle for flashers. They no longer have to wear a raincoat or hide in dark subway corners.
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Felipe Badass!!!!
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Mine name ist INIGO THREAT!
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Efraín Scourge, at your service.
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