Micheal Seamus Patrick O'flannigan Sean McMurphy had a very long name. Why am I bothering telling you this? You can see for yourself. Anyway Micheal Seamus Patrick O'flannigan Sean McMurphy was the son of Irish immigrants who liked many names almost enough to have many children but not quite. So in America (which was not nearly so good as was advertised) they had a many named son.
Micheal Seamus Patrick O'flannigan Sean McMurphy had a normal enough childhood but for the fact that no one called him by his first name or a nickname for that matter. Even his initials MSPOSM were too long for the young boy. So a few times he introduced himself simply as Micheal or even Mike, but his parents would have none of that. His thick red faced father would cuff the back of his head and say, "That there is yor heritage boy! Don't you go around shortening it! Be proud! Be a man!" his father always added "be a man" to any lecture or motivational speech he gave Micheal Seamus Patrick O'flannigan Sean McMurphy, he had got it from American sitcoms. And his mother would always say, "listen to your father dear" just like sitcom mothers. The point is he introduced himself as Micheal Seamus Patrick O'flannigan Sean McMurphy and got called that. It was a wonder anyone could remember the whole thing.
It also posed a problem at school. It was a rather long name to write. For spelling tests his teacher always skipped straight to the spelling so he never had enough time to get all the words. Micheal Seamus Patrick O'flannigan Sean McMurphy loathed his name and vowed to have it changed when he grew up. He had the nagging suspicion that his father named him while drunk and was resentful of it so decided he would rename himself something like Ling, Ching or Chang. Some thing one syllable and completely not Irish.
Perhaps because of his long name that never seemed to fit for being to long. Micheal Seamus Patrick O'flannigan Sean McMurphy soon grew to accommodated his name by 10Th grade he was 6 foot by 11Th he was 6ft 3... and a half. He would have liked it if it were not for his flaming red hair, freckle covered face, shoulders, arms (he even had a dark blue freckle in his blue eyes) and pale pasty complexion. The effect was that he looked like one tall lanky strip of salami. Imagine looking like salami-it was mortifying. Many times he had tried to get a tan but got sunburned instead.
Other than that his adolescence was perfectly normal.
