Samuel Clemens had so many pseudonyms when he was young.
He wrote for his older brother’s paper under one.
And then, going down river to make a name for himself, made several on the bylines of his freelance writing.
They were all rather silly names.
But the one we all know the best is Mark Twain.
The call of the Mississippi riverboats to signal that the water was two fathoms deep.
“Two fathoms is twelve feet,” said Samuel. “And I am twelve feet tall.”
Yes, he was really that tall.
I mean, why else would they call them tall tales?