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| Named after two of the band members' sister saw the labeling on a sewing machine. | |
| World War II term used by pilots to describe strange flying objects that flew alongside and sometimes circled their planes. | |
| Rumored to be after the lead singer's asthma, it was actually a nickname given to him by his father when he was a toddler; the nickname wasn't because he had asthma. | |
| There is an Australian Aboriginal tradition of sleeping with a dog for warmth on a cold night. The colder the night, the more dogs. The band also had three lead singers. | |
| The band is a mock tribute to the basketball coach and gym teacher at Robert E. Lee High School. He sent some of them to the principal's because their hair touched their collars. | |
| The band claims that an Ouija Board told its frontman that it had been his name in a previous life as a 17th century witch. He later adopted the name himself. | |
| Still an unnamed band by their second show, they asked the audience for suggestions. Also the name of a Simpsons character, although the band was not aware of this until later on. | |
| A deliberate misspelling of a term coined by military strategist Herman Kahn to describe one million deaths, popularized in his 1960 book, 'On Thermonuclear War.' | |
| The bass player used to work at Starbucks coffee and spent many days returning change. Hopefully their next band will be named Moneyback from the lines of people... never mind. | |
| All of the group members had been recruited from Greenwich Village. The group's manager warns never to add the article 'the.' | |
| Named after the agriculturist who invented the seed drill. | |
| Named after a boxer who owned the studio they practiced in, who in turn named himself after another boxer. | |
| According to the band, part of the name is an acronym for 'Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Internal Excellence.' | |
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| The combination of first names from two Georgia bluesmen. They also considered naming themselves 'Anderson Council' after the last names or, if you can believe it, 'Megadeath.' | |
| Keith Moon suggested it as a joke. He felt the band would go over like a lead balloon. They dropped the 'a' from so Americans wouldn't mispronounce it. (We'd just learned English.) | |
| From the novel by Willard Manus, about an eccentric that works in a circus freak show, which band manager, Guy Stevens, had read while in jail. | |
| The name comes from two of the band members' last names, as well as the name of a trucking magazine. Stephen King later based his pseudonym after it. | |
| Comes from Britain's 'Unemployment Benefit Form 40', which the band was quite familiar with. | |
| After the mad scientist in the 1967 Jane Fonda movie 'Barbarella.' | |
| Named themselves after the slang term for a pep pill called Dexedrine. | |
| According to the band's flamboyant frontman, 'It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid... I was certainly aware of gay connotations.' | |
| A type of spy plane flown during the cold war by the US. However, the lead singer claims it is meant to represent interaction with the audience. | |
| From Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall', which reads, 'I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought... very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-colored people.' | |
| Mythical river marking the boundary between Earth and Hades; literally means 'hate', ironically, one of the band's members said it was 'the only [name] none of us hated.' | |
| The band is named after the nicknames of two of the lead singer's college choir friends. One had a round face and glasses, looking like an owl and the other had chubby cheeks. | |
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