Carlos Danger Name Generator Surfaces Amid Weiner Scandal

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is pursued by reporters after leaving his apartment in New York on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The former congressman acknowledged sending explicit text messages to a woman as recently as last summer, more than a year after sexting revelations destroyed his congressional career. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

A Carlos Danger name generator popped up on Slate.com, poking fun of the online name allegedly used by former Congressman Anthony Weiner to engage in sex chats with a 22-year-old woman.

Weiner acknowledged that he sent out some of the texts to the woman, now identified as Sydney Leathers of Indiana. The Dirty reported that he used the name Carlos Danger and “dangr33” to chat with the woman, allegedly promising her a job at Politico and a condo in Chicago.

Slate came up with the name generator, which got nearly 50,000 “likes” on Facebook in a day, and it’s simple: just type in your name--or any name really--to get a Carlos Danger-esque moniker.

For example, when one types in say “Jack Phillips,” the name “Armando Verboten” then pops up.  For the name John Smith, one gets “Dario Kill.”

Apparently, Slate made a minor mistake with Weiner’s name.

“An earlier version of the Carlos Danger Name Generator suggested incorrectly that the Carlos Danger Name for Anthony Weiner is Armando Catastrophe. The Carlos Danger Name for Anthony Weiner is Carlos Danger,” it wrote.

On Thursday, Weiner’s opponents in the New York City mayoral race slammed him, telling him to get out of the race. But Weiner has relented, sending out a long e-mail to his supporters.

“When I decided to run for mayor this year I knew it would be tough. I knew that the mistakes of my personal life would make things difficult for me and for my family. From the very beginning, some people insisted that I shouldn’t even be allowed to run,” he wrote. “I believe that question should be left to the voters. This fight is too important to leave New Yorkers without a choice. And I want to give them the power to decide who their Mayor will be.”

He added: “This campaign isn’t about me. It’s about a great city that is beginning to lose its mantle as the Capital of the Middle Class. It’s about the challenge of finding affordable housing, a good job with benefits and a public school that attracts the greatest teachers and produces the smartest kids. This race for Mayor isn’t about me. It’s about you. And I’ll never lose sight of that.”

And before signing off, he wrote: “New Yorkers don’t quit, and I’ll never quit on you.”