A very minor ethical dilemma

My job requires that I do an awful lot of work with our chapter's fundraising database. As it's quite an old DB and has pulled in records from a number of sources, I have to do quite a lot of data hygiene work - going through the records to merge duplicates together, delete bad records with no gift data, correct mucked-up addresses, etc. This means that I often run across absolutely fascinating names

Given the nature of privacy and the lack thereof in the United States, is it wrong of me to want to steal names from the list when they strike me as absolutely stunning for RPG characters? I mean, it's one thing to lift a single last name and not attach it to any identifiers, or a first name for that matter (I chose Sgt. Preston's mythical wife's name by looking at the list of people who had donated money that day), but ... well, some combinations are just too damn cool.

I just used 'you want I should' in a sentence-

and meant it. Not even quoting Runyon. Oy, I need more sleep...

For the record, the public relations person for our chapter came up to my office and asked if I would be willing to come down to East Orange with a few other Red Cross people next Tuesday. It's a National Night Out thing, or a Local Night Out thing, whatever - something about a night out - and we're bringing our fire safety trailer, some of our other stuff, and the Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV). One of our volunteers is already associated with the fire safety trailer (a mini mobile home kitted out with a VCR so kids can watch a video on fire safety, then clamber around inside as fake smoke comes in so as to practice escaping safely). The PR lady wanted to know if I would be willing to come and explain the ERV and where it's been, etc. I said 'sure, what time', thus provoking the fire safety volunteer to murmur 'see, I told you she would'. As the two of them were walking away I remembered that I keep two puppet animals in Red Cross vests on my desk for use with traumatized children, and called out, "You want I should bring the dog?"

For the record, yes, she wants I should bring the dog. So if you're in East Orange, NJ next week and you see someone standing outside a Red Cross vehicle with either a gray, wolflike critter or a black Lab puppy on her arm, that's me.

I realise I didn't do a gamepost today.

Sorry. Brain was elsewhere, didn't feel properly creative. However, towards the end of the day an idea occurred to me for about the second or third time. I've run it past three people- batyatoon, mephron, and utsuri- so far and it's broken all of their brains, so I might as well pass it to you.

Take our League group. Look at the characters real good. Look at the vast mix of genres you've got goin' there. Now let's say you wanted to add just a bit of superhero action, right? Right. How do we do that? Cosmic rays from space? Radioactive spiders? Secret origins? Nah. All you need to commit crossover havoc with this merry gang is two little words:

Abin Sur.

Showtime, folks! Green Lanterns other than Alan Scott had to be 'honest and without fear'. Pick your candidate in our little group!