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This is obviously an absurd overextrapolation, and it's unlikely that a significant number of people would actually change their name to exploit it, but the principle is accurate:

That's called a joke.




I wasn't criticizing OP's statement, just elaborating on it. And it wasn't a joke so much as a rhetorical device.




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