-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been talking about this for the last decade, and never found a reference on the web whenever I was thinking about it. Thanks to Google, it was well within my prodigiously diminished attention span this morning. Given the events on the net over the past few years, I figure we might as well have fun with the idea. Humor is good leverage, and these days we need *lots* of leverage. In arbitrary order (in other words, *I* chose it. :-)), and with apologies to Toru Iwatani, by way of Michael Thomasson at <http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Pac-Man%20Ghosts.html>, here it is: A Proposed Nomenclature for the Four Horseman of The Infocalypse Horseman Color Character Nickname 1 Terrorism Red Shadow "Blinky" 2 Narcotics Pink Speedy "Pinky" 3 Money Laundering Aqua Bashful "Inky" 4 Paedophilia Yellow Pokey "Clyde" It is acceptable to refer to a horseman by any of the above, i.e., "Horseman No. 1", "The Red Horseman", "Shadow", or "Blinky". Apparently there was a, um, pre-deceased, dark-blue ghost, used in Japanese tournament play, named "Kinky", I leave that particular horseman for quibblers. Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQWBN/MPxH8jf3ohaEQKfBwCfYAtDGjP6jjsUHfhWcddqDYTEWfEAoOTU I056iw3tAhHohzkh1ptzJ8Es =/tt7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'