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shrugged

We all doof from time to time

He gone doofed.

Perhaps you suffer from D-G letterblindness.

It would be totally understandable for someone who reads handwritten Russian to confuse D and g in their mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_(Cyrillic)#Form

Oh man, I don't think I've written cursive Russian in something like a decade. I honestly have no idea how Russian historians parse old documents; old hand-written English is hard enough, but cursive Russian is a whole other thing.

My last name just looks like a child drawing a wavy ocean!