A 19-year-old British man now may have the longest name in the world, and certainly the nerdiest.
George Garratt of Glastonbury last week changed his name to “Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.”
Confirming the dangers of the Internet, The Telegraph reports he did so using an online service that charges $20. Whatever happened to teens just downloading porn?
“I wanted to be unique,” Captain Fantastic told the newspaper. “I decided upon a theme of superheroes.”
He was about to say more, but he was beaten up by a passing busload of schoolchildren.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
That’s pretty stupid.
The speed gained from adding Spider-Man, Batman, Wolverine, and The Hulk would be completely negligible when combined with the speeds of The Flash and Superman.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Plus, he forgot the hyphen in Spider-Man. Just sayin’.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
He misspelled Spider-Man.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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And he will never get married…
November 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Hilarious! What a nerd…there are special people all over this world. Truly special.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Uhhh..he looks retarded.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I can’t wait until people start abbreviating it to Cap’n Fanny.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Wouldn’t his name technically be “Captain Combined”?
November 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Followup to TJ’s post:
Can you imagine the DJ intro at that reception? That would be awesome.
“Let me introduce to you, Captain Fantastic and Helen Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined”
November 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
“Please, my father was MR. Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine The Hulk And The Flash Combined. Call me Captain.”
All kidding aside, this might be completely brain-dead but so what? He’s obviously having a good time and not taking himself too seriously. Lighten up. We all know he’s going to get it changed back (probably next week) so relax. And if you don’t think a sense of humor is attractive to women, well… shows what you know.
Far stupider and more offensive is parents who give their kids awful names. If you choose it for yourself, then good on you, but if you inflict “Harley Quinn” or “Kal-El” or “Pilot Inspektor” on an innocent, unsuspecting child who never asked for extra swirlies and purple nurples then you deserve to be flogged.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
He wanted to be original, so he ripped off a joke from Family Guy?
November 5th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
It’s only fair: Family Guy has been ripping off other shows for years.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Peter’s boat’s name: “S.S. More Powerful Than Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and the Incredible Hulk Put Together.”
- Family Guy Ep.: “A Fish Out of Water”
It would have been more interesting IF he went a little more original.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
My real name is Nosmo King.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Um…do you think this guy is really interested in girls?
November 5th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
The Glastonbury court system needs to upgrade their letterhead.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
A sense of humor is very attractive to women, yes.
The idea of having THAT as a last name is not.
Yeesh. And stealing jokes from Family Guy? That’s even more pathetic.
“Hey, you remember that time the joke happened?”
[insert 30 second clip irrelevant to plot]
I don’t care for South Park, but that one episode opened my eyes and freed me, making me realize that Family Guy is, indeed, not funny.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
@Ike Iszany
You make a good point. Honestly, I doubt he’s into men, either.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Captain Dumbass to the… uhh… what the hell is wrong with the courts?
November 5th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
What’s really pathetic is knowing that it’s a reference to Family Guy.
Zing!
November 5th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
^^^
you’re right
he might just be into himself
He should have just stuck with Captain Fantastic though. I think that could have worked.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:19 am
D. Peace:
Heh. Reminds me of Frank Zappa and his kids Moon Unit, Dweezil, and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. Luckily Ahmet got away with what I believe is an Arabic name.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:34 am
“I don’t care for South Park, but that one episode opened my eyes and freed me, making me realize that Family Guy is, indeed, not funny.”
Seconded. although, I do love South Park.
November 6th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I didn’t get the reference.
South Park ftw.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
“And if you don’t think a sense of humor is attractive to women, well… shows what you know.”
And if you think that this is what women will find funny, well… shows what you know.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:27 am
The really important question that comes out of this is would combining The Flash’s speed and Superman’s speed result in speed faster than The Flash?
I mean, if Clark Kent had been hit by the lightning while standing next to the rack of chemicals, would he get any faster? Just a little bit? A whole lot?