Mailing List Fun

We get mail addressed to the following people:

• Mrs. Lisa Martin
• Lisa Martin
• Lisa Rose Martin
• Lisa R. Martin
• Ms. Lisa Rose
• Lisa Rose
• Liwsa Martin
• Mr. Jeff S Martin
• Jeffrey Martin
• Jeff S Martin
• Jeffrey S. DMartin
• Mr. Jeffrey S. Martin
• Jeffrey S. Martin
• Lisa Rose and Jeff Martin
• Jeff and Lisa Rose
• Lisa &. Jeff Rose
• Ms. Lisa Rose and Jeff Martin

This is not counting mail to "resident" or "preferred customer" OR mail for previous occupants of the house (e.g. Bryan Falcon, David Mosley) OR neighbors who got on a mailing list with an address in error - ours (e.g. Eric Kanagy) OR production companies for any of the above (e.g. "Crunchy Productions"). We seem to live near lots of media people.

While I will admit to having signed some things before that I knew would produce junk mail, I have never purposely signed incorrect names, though it's been tempting. (I've heard before of people using different middle initials to track who sells their name.) So, the incorrect spellings and names are somehow corruptions that got passed along. It's especially interesting the ones that seem to be derivations of speech - e.g. the Jeff and Lisa Rose (which just takes my middle name for a last name, which it could sound like if you didn't know us), which later got changed to Lisa and Jeff Rose. Or Jeffrey S. DMartin, which seems a pretty big coincidence considering Jeff's most common screen/e-mail name is jeffTHEmartin.

And, as an extra tidbit, here's the latest funny quote I have, from Jeffy:
"Hello call-waiting Ryan and Jamie moo I'm a cow and I have cinnamon under my foot."