Crescent Dragonwagon.
Though her original name was Ellen Zolotow so maybe the new name isn’t any stranger.
Odesio
Presumably he’s taken over from Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster (real given name, AFAIK), who used to be there.
There is a guy in the Seattle are that had his name legally changed to Mike The Mover. Yep, owns a moving company and likes to run for political offices, I don’t think he has ever won an election.
Knew a guy in high school who changed his name from Mike/Matt/something like that to Lorand S. (Sentala?) D’Caltan.
Didn’t Homer Simpson change his name to Max Power?
He got the name from his hair dryer.
Great episode, btw.
Moon Unit Zappa
Ima Hogg
Even better is that he wanted “Ocho Cinco” but goofed on the paperwork and got “Ochocinco”
But isn’t that her given name, not one she changed it to?
This was mentioned today on Slashdot and is timely for this thread:
Apparently, he was pranked by someone who applied for the name change in his place.
Probably the last great episode, if you keep track of those sorts of things.
The other names on Homer’s list: Hercules Rockefeller, Rembrandt Q. Einstein, Handsome B. Wonderful.
“Max Power” was the only name he spelled correctly.
I have an Ikea coffee table that I think was named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116
Sound Mind, can’t be. Doesn’t have nearly enough diacriticals.
Thank you for this. I saw her book at the store and her name was a WTFH moment. More that I found.
Heh, I knew him too. Although I only met him once (at a renfaire!); I mostly knew him online through Avatar MUD. Good guy.
I work in the criminal court and came across a guy, charged with a serious crime, whose name was Felon B. Good. I’m not sure if it was real or changed. Same with another guy whose business card read Monsterville Horton.
A guy in New Zealand changed his name to … well over 2000 names. His birth certificate ran to seven pages.
A university student in Christchurch changed his name to Canterbury Draught. It was part of a radio stunt and earned him a year’s supply of beer. Not sure if he changed his name back though.
Arnold George Dorsey changed his name to… Engelbert Humperdink. Granted, there was a real person whose given name was that, but who would *choose *to change their name to that?
Also, Bono, our beloved King of Ireland, I mean, lead singer of U2 wasn’t born with the name Bono. (Real name Paul David Hewson)
Not quite sure if this qualifies as a weird name change, but perhaps it’s a name change most people don’t know about. Elton John’s given name is Reginald Kenneth Dwight. How our sequined friend Reggie came up with Elton is still a mystery to me. (When he changed his name, he also changed his middle name. His full name is Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE.)
While I’m on sparkly gay pianists, Wladziu Lee Valentino changed his name to Liberace. Odd in my opinion.
I’m sure people realize that Sid Vicious wasn’t born with that name; he was born Simon John Ritchie.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. I guess that when you’re famous, you can buy a new name… or at least order people to call you whatever you’d like. When I get famous, I think I’ll have people call me Lady Lemonjello of Gardenspade.
Wasn’t that the villian from The Princess Bride?
Yep, the bad guy was named Humperdink… but the original Engelbert Humperdink was this guy.
Fun, fun!
One of my favorite Eddie Izzard bits on how Englebert Humperdinck’s name was decided upon.