Elbar Olped
a.k.a. Elba Rolped
Not unlike “ghost phones” and “burner phones,” people often create “ghost” or “throw-away” email addresses to hide their identity, albeit perhaps not to the degree some might think, in order to minimize spam in their primary inbox. Some years ago, I felt a need for such an email address – but what would I call it? I could have used my street address interdigitated with my zip code, or how about my shoe size plus my mother’s maiden name with a couple of special characters thrown in? Neither seemed to fit the occasion.
It happened to be election season, and I was slowly coming to grips with the ugly truth that my alternatives were, (1) the blowhard loose-cannon Republican, (2) the Lib’rall Democrat or (3) the country bumpkin Libertarian. So, along with a couple of dozen others, I ended up voting for Gary Johnson, but not before spending hours in front of the TV, watching the other two lie about the misdeeds of each other. During all that I heard Hillary refer to the half of the Country that rejected her and her ideas as a “basket of deplorables”, and I said to myself, “hell, that’s me”. So my new address became ElbarOlped[i]DEPLORABLE spelled backward@gmail.com, or if I had reason to masquerade as female, I could be ElbaRolped@gmail.com with the very same spelling.
Over the years, I have enjoyed being Elbar, or even Elba on occasion, and being referred to as deplorable by a politician and scores of TV talking heads is actually very comforting. When I order bomb-making supplies from Amazon, I always use that address. Elbar even has his own Facebook account, but traffic there is really slow.
By: Jim
Written: April 1, 2025
Published: April 1, 2025
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footnotes
| ↑i | DEPLORABLE spelled backward |
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