Don’t call him Douglas Allen Smith Jr. any more. Call him by his new name, Captain Awesome.
An Oregon man has legally changed his name to Captain Awesome, according to the New York Post. He did it last month in honor of the character on TV’s Chuck.
“I just thought it was really funny that Devon’s father always called him Captain Awesome because ‘a poor nickname builds good character,'” he told the paper.
Awesome, an unemployed cabinet installer, had to work hard to get the name change granted, because the first judge who reviewed his application thought it was a prank.
That judge told him to hire a lawyer to make his case in court, but Awesome chose to go it alone, representing himself after studying up on name change cases.
His first hurdle: taking some heat from Judge Douglas Mitchell about ditching their shared name.
“The first thing he said to me was that he thought Douglas was a perfectly honorable first name,” Awesome told the Register-Guard. “I thought, ‘Oh my goodness — I’m screwed.'”
After making sure Smith was sincere about wanting to switch his name, Judge Mitchell consented, pronouncing him Captain Awesome.
Awesome also got permission to change his signature to a right-pointing arrow, a smiley face, and a left-pointing arrow, but said his bank rejected it as being too easily “forgeable.”
There is one born every minute. And we wonder why the world is the way it is. 😉
And we let these people vote too….
Speaking of voting, I’m waiting for someone to change their name to “None of the Above” and run in an election! Almost certanly a guaranteed win.