It's hard to be a patron of the internet and avoid the name generator. If you have a MySpace page, your friends have probably posted bulletins urging you to find out your Pirate Name (mine is "Eel Skin Jake"). Or if you have an email account, you've probably received email forwards coaxing you to translate your real name into a pop star ("Prince Taylor") or Brazillian soccer star name ("Mattha").
Sometimes, word of mouth is enough, as was the case with DeadName.com for me. Unsolicited, a co-worker commanded that I go to the site. Using the generator, I learned that if I listened to Marilyn Manson, wore nothing but black, and was obsessed with death, my compatriots would refer to me as "Twisted Illusion". So not impressed was I.
She had already been checking out goth names for other employees of the company. Since I wasn't really planning to refer to our boss as "Slut Boi", I passed on following her lead. However, being who I am, and already distracted from productive work (not that this takes much), I began checking the goth names for some of Oklahoma City's elite citizens.