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A chip off the old Bloggs
In an act of almost Backbytian pointlessness, we hear that price comparison web site thecomparisons.com has completed a survey of the fake names that British people use when filling in online forms.
Top of this list was “Joe Bloggs”, which represented 48 per cent of the fakes – either that, or Joe has been looking really hard for new car insurance. If any of our readers know a real Joe Bloggs, please ask him – or his brother Fred, who came third in the survey. Second was James Bond, while there were strong showings from Bob Marley, Bob Builder, David Beckham and Marilyn Monroe, who tops the fake female poll (that’s Marilyn not Becks, by the way).
We find also, with dismay, that several Star Wars characters make the list. This must be really inconvenient for anyone out there called Jabba Hut who wants to be taken seriously when he phones a call centre.
John Smith is curiously absent from the list - presumably because when you give that fake name people assume you just have really boring parents.
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