Man marries dog

No, that headline is not a joke. It's real. And very very strange.

An Australian man has taken marrying your "best friend" to a whole new level. He's now hitched to his dog.

Joseph Guiso, 20, married his 5-year-old golden Labrador Retriever named "Honey" in an elaborate wedding ceremony at a park in Toowoomba.

Thirty of Guiso's friends and family attended the ceremony, which concluded with the groom getting down on one knee and planting a kiss on his four-legged bride. Guiso says the relationship is purely platonic and that the wedding was a light-hearted way to celebrate with friends.

The only thing that could have made this story any stranger would be if Guiso changed his name to Captain Awesome.

Oregon man changes name to Captain Awesome

Brandon was very upset with this story when I told him about it. He was going to do the same thing.

KOMO posted about the story. Eugene-Springfield, meet Captain Awesome.

Not that the former Douglas Allen Smith Jr. is a newcomer to Lane County.

He was born here in 1983. He graduated from Willamette High School in 2002.

But he officially became Captain Awesome only last month, when a Lane County Circuit Court judge approved his name change petition.

And what about Captain Awesome's new signature?

Mitchell also allowed Awesome to change his official signature to a right-pointing arrow, a smiley face and a left-pointing arrow. The state Department of Motor Vehicles actually accepted the cheerful new signature.

Now the real question will be what Brandon will change his name to now that Captain Awesome has been used? Perhaps after January 7th he'll change it to Swoop.

Epic Videos: SJAMAYEE!

I have no idea what SJAMAYEE! is. I tried a search for it. All I could find is that it is a "humor short that is shown on Belgian TV."

Gotta love European humor. Here's a few of them that I found.