Assange designated himself a "spy for the people".
"The commissioner has designated himself as high-holy executioner," Ginsberg said.
He has an odd sort of modesty about designating himself a "writer", as if it would sound pretentious.
Defoe was clearly proud of this work, because he sometimes designated himself "Author of 'The True-Born Englishman'" in later works.
He was elated to be in the company of Richard Hofstadter, Peter Gay, and Garrett Mattingly, and became so enamored of the city that he designated himself New York Goy.
He has a kosher sushi restaurant, runs a private lottery (it is probably this activity that gets him killed and thrown in the canal), and has designated himself president of what he grandly calls the New York Cricket Club.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, who founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, and who has led the creation of its animation division, was one of the producers of "Shrek" and could have easily designated himself to collect the award.
He threw in his lot with the emerging Prague rock scene, and in 1969, joined forces with a popular new band called the Plastic People of the Universe, designating himself their "artistic director".
That chopped-and-screwed self-portrait, the one in which he designates himself as a "loser", also proclaims him a "joker" and, in a complex pun, a rastaquouère: a nouveau-riche foreigner.
He at once designated himself "heir of the kingdom of Scotland," clearly anticipating the vindication of his claim, which was derived from his mother, daughter of Margaret, eldest daughter of David, earl of Huntingdon, brother to kings Malcolm IV and William I the Lion.
