the onion (in 1997): "in a move designed to make the united states seem more 'bad-assed and scary in a quasi-heavy-metal manner,' congress passed a bill monday changing the nation's name to the ünited stätes of ämerica. 'much like mötley crüe and motörhead, the ünited stätes is not to be messed with [...]" (via typographica).