Not too long ago I posted about discovering a new favorite name: Happyton Bonyongwe.
But Happyton has been supplanted as my favorite by this doozy of a monicker: Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov
Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, or “Gurby” as I like to call him, is the new president of Turkmenistan and the successor of Turkmenbashi himself, Saparmurat Niyazov. Gurby has already restored the glory of opera to the long-suffering Turkmen people, which puts him head and shoulders above the cruel and vicious Happyton Bonyongwe in my book. No word if he’s changed the calendars back, though.
