{"id":5808,"date":"2011-08-08T14:10:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2011-08-08T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:10:22","slug":"brittish-geeks-set-%e2%80%9clongest-name%e2%80%9d-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/brittish-geeks-set-%e2%80%9clongest-name%e2%80%9d-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittish Geeks Set \u201cLongest Name\u201d Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/longestnames-930x760.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5809\" title=\"longestnames-930x760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/longestnames-930x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/longestnames-930x760.jpg 930w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/longestnames-930x760-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You think <em>you\u2019re<\/em> a geek?Well of course you are but are you willing to put  your money on the line and prove it? A pair of British geeks did just that, besting the  world record for the longest name and they so by renaming themselves after famous superheroes and supervillains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Knox-Hewson has legally changed his name to \u201cEmperor Spiderman  Gandalf Wolverine Skywalker Optimus Prime Goku Sonic Xavier Ryu Cloud  Superman HeMan Batman Thrash.\u201d His friend Kelvin Borbidge has taken the  villian names \u201cBaron Venom Balrog Sabretooth Vader Megatron Vegeta  Robotnik Magneto Bison Sephiroth Lex Luthor Skeletor Joker Grind.\u201d  Knowledgable geeks will notice that the order of duo\u2019s multiple names  correspond to pairs of archenemies.<\/p>\n<p>It cost the two about $23 each to change their names with Britain\u2019s  Legal Deed Poll Service just last week. Both chose names with 16 words  each, enabling them to beat the previous record of 13. The prior  record holder was another British geek who legally changed his name to  \u201cCaptain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk  and the Flash Combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Borbridge told the <em>Coventry Telegraph<\/em>, \u201cOur families were shocked and thought that we were crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Would-be record breakers take note, all it would take is a 17-word name to blow these two out of the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You think you\u2019re a geek?Well of course you are but are you willing to put your money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5810,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}