{"id":360,"date":"2019-01-03T02:53:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T02:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2019-08-31T08:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:26:24","slug":"o-captain-my-captain-if-thats-your-real-name-which-i-learned-it-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/o-captain-my-captain-if-thats-your-real-name-which-i-learned-it-is-not\/","title":{"rendered":"O, Captain, My Captain, If That\u2019s Your Real Name (which I learned it is NOT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Captain and Tammy Tennille in better times when they were both alive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

RIP \u201cThe Captain\u201d from \u201cThe Captain & Tennille,\u201d a TV show I watched as a kid with completely NO sense of what irony even was. (I also did not watch the show at the time in a haze of booze and\/or legal weed and\/or fake news, so everything seemed so real<\/em> at the time.) Therefore, I have little reason to doubt anything from that era. As it turns out, “The Captain” was not his real name, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Captain, O, Captain…<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So, you ready for this? His real name was \u201cLew Alcindor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found that online, so it has to be true. Yep. And I discovered more about fake\/repurposed\/altered\/n\u00e9e names there, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I’m sorry, son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I’m the co-pilot…”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s original name was \u201cRobert Paulson.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the singer\/actor Meat Loaf\u2019s birth name was, get this…\u201cElijah\u2019s Manna.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post Toasties cereal? Almost known as \u201cGoodbye Burger City.\u201d Yikes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hit movie \u201cAmerican Graffiti\u201d was almost called \u201cUtopian TurtleTop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Edsel automobile was originally called the \u201cDodge Corvette,\u201d spurring mulitiple lawsuits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dodge Corvette automobile was once to be known as \u201cSlim Shady.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eminem\u2019s birthname was \u201cArchibald Leach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Hollywood legend Cary Grant? If you\u2019re of a certain age, you knew him as… \u201cDaryl Dragon.\u201d But no one is that old anymore. Certainly not the Captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This guy came up when I used the googles on “Daryl Dragon.” Must be him, right? RIP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, thanks Captain! Thanks, Wikipeida! And thanks to the legislators in Colorado who brought us the world\u2019s first Legal Weed! And thanks to my friend Jack Daniel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might know him by his original name, “Earl Times.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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O Cap’n, My Cap’n, OOPS! All Berries!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RIP \u201cThe Captain\u201d from \u201cThe Captain & Tennille,\u201d a TV show I watched as a kid with completely NO sense of what irony even was. (I also did not watch the show at the time in a haze of booze and\/or legal weed and\/or fake news, so everything seemed so real at the time.) Therefore, … Continue reading “O, Captain, My Captain, If That\u2019s Your Real Name (which I learned it is NOT)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[35,36,34],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-seriousness-aside","category-uncategorized","tag-captain","tag-cereal","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}