A 22-year-old bloke from Dunedin, New Zealand, legally changed his name to one that is 99-characters long after losing a poker bet in 2010, but he only found out about it recently when his passport expired.
You know what it’s like when your passport expires and you go to renew it, only to realise that you changed your name to
'Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova' a few years back… No?
Well, that’s exactly what happened to one unfortunate bloke in New Zealand. According to the
New Zealand Herald, a man claiming to be Mr Frostnova’s friend said “the name change was the result of a lost poker bet and the man realised his drunken consequences only when his passport expired.”
*Insert excessive laughing here*
Luckily, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, Mr Frostnova’s new name was just one character shy of the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs' (DIA) 100-character limit.
According to DIA Births Deaths and Marriages spokesman Michael Mead, ‘Mr Frostnova could change his name again any time by completing the form correctly and paying the $127 fee’.
We’d keep it if we were Mr Frostnova…
