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UrbScotty

(23,980 posts)
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 11:15 PM Jul 2014

Swedish guy's name is 63 words long

And you thought "Lianne Madonna Vogue On The Cover Of A Magazine McHale Dawson" was an unusual name. A Swedish 25-year-old lays claims to what the Local speculates may be the world's longest name; it holds the record in Sweden. Though the former Alexander Ek goes by Papah Long Nameh for short, his legal name now stands at 63 first names, the first of which is "Kim-Jong," followed by Ek. In its entirety:

Kim-Jong Sexy Glorious Beast Divine Dick Father Lovely Iron Man Even Unique Poh Un Winn Charlie Ghora Khaos Mehan Hansa Kimmy Humbero Uno Master Over Dance Shake Bouti Bepop Rocksteady Shredder Kung Ulf Road House Gilgamesh Flap Guy Theo Arse Hole Im Yoda Funky Boy Slam Duck Chuck Jorma Jukka Pekka Ryan Super Air Ooy Rusell Salvador Alfons Molgan Akta Papa Long Nameh Ek.

It's a name that has cost him, literally. Sweden grants each citizen the right to one free name change. After that, it's 1,000 kronor, or about $184, per change. And since age 18, Ek has altered his six times, with Nyheter24 reporting past (and shorter) versions have included Osama bin Alexander and Alexander Gargamel Powhatan Genghis. One of those changes involved adding "Klaus-Heidi" to his name in a bid to win a recent contest put on by German airline Lufthansa, which hoped to get a Berlin-loving Swede to change his or her name in exchange for a rent-free year in the capital (42 did so, Bloomberg reports; Ek didn't win, though he went the extra mile and made his name "Klaus-Heidi Bratwurst). Ek doesn't seem to see much downside to his mouthful of a name: "I don't always get my mail and sometimes the electricity bill is late, but that's part of the charm."


http://www.newser.com/story/189254/mans-first-name-is-63-words-long.html?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange
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Swedish guy's name is 63 words long (Original Post) UrbScotty Jul 2014 OP
Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- PoliticAverse Jul 2014 #1
Why doesn't this nitwit just write books and use different pseudonyms? It's a way to have valerief Jul 2014 #2
Because I think he's fucking with you. Warren DeMontague Jul 2014 #5
How about Steve? Or Bob? shenmue Jul 2014 #3
Glorious Beast Divine Dick Father... Warren DeMontague Jul 2014 #4

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
1. Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried-
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 11:28 PM
Jul 2014

digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm has nothing on that guy.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
2. Why doesn't this nitwit just write books and use different pseudonyms? It's a way to have
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 09:31 AM
Jul 2014

different names without the legal hassle.

Of course, he'd have to go to the trouble of writing something other than just names. Unless he wrote a book of names.

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