A friend of my uncle used to sign his cheques "Mickey mouse"

My understanding is that under English law (probably inherited by the US) anything you intend to act as you signature is legally your signature. So the joke was on him, because his signature was Mickey Mouse.

This goes back to the days where people were illiterate and would sign by writing an X. But that was fine, because they only had to sign a handful of legal documents in their entire life and could remember each one.

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presidentender 4 days ago | parent [-]

For a time in the years around 2008 I would sign my credit card receipts "Ron Paul," which eventually resulted in a sternly-worded letter from Wells Fargo that carried no legal weight but did lead to me discontinuing the silly little campaign.

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Aachen 4 days ago | parent [-]

I don't get the punchline. Are you not named that? Did they care that you signed by writing a random person's name, or were you imitating a specific person you knew or so?

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ajb 4 days ago | parent [-]

Ron Paul was a US presidential candidate in 2008, so I guess that's who they were signing as. Especially given their username...

	▲	Aachen 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh! Right, I had looked at the username to see if it was related but even that didn't make the name click. I must just have never heard it before