Conclusion - Back to the Hawesome Beginning

Today, the Hawesomes have dwindled in number but it still thrives financially on the east coast as a family of entrepreneurs with a wide variety of business interests. Most recently, one long time rival of the Hawesome family has been engaged in a thus-far unsuccessful attempt to trademark the word "hawesome" and license its use. This has led to bitter legal battles and exchanges of threats between the family and promoters of the term.

In one of those coincidences with which history is so often rife, the most recent battle between the Hawesomes is with a California man named Nickerson, a distant relative of the very same family of underwear makerswhich Lord Hawesome released from servitude in the 18th century, and too whom he may have had blood ties, if the claims of his siring bastard Nickersons are true.

In the end, it would appear the family has no one to blame but themselves for the widespread use of their name as an exclamatory. Indeed, when Mr. Nickerson was informed of the centuries-old connection between himself and the family that bears the name he so enjoys using, Mr. Nickerson replied, predictably,

“Ho-o-dude! That's fuckin' HAWESOME!”