Spamified Kim.

The spammers who contact me two or three times a day offering unmissable investment opportunities just sent me a communication topped and tailed with big wodges of chopped-up Kipling. How literate of them! 

young Mohammedan woman, and begged a rank cigar of the brand that theythou eaten?' He fumbled in his bosom and drew forth a worn, woodenof nights; but he looked more carefully, and, hand on amulet, drew his3.25a.m. south-bound roared in. The sleepers sprang to life, and thefree myself from the Wheel of Things by a broad and open road.' Hebeautiful meals all hot from the cookshop at the head of the serai,

Even reduced to the consistency of dog food, Kim is a spicy read.- young Mohammedan women, cigars, trains, amulets, the Great Wheel of Things- Sock it to me, Rudyard, baby!

Family Names

Here's a site (belonging to University College London) that documents the geographical spread of family names in the U.K. The Guardian drew my attention to it. Not surprisingly it's getting a lot of hits at the moment.  

If you have an English/British family name, this site will pinpoint where in the UK people with that name  were concentrated in the sample years of 1882 and 1998 and so- by deduction- where the name originates.

My family name turns out to be West Country. More specifically from the area round Bath. 

Ailz's family name- no surprises here- is deep Lancashire.