[DrBenway]

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Originally Posted by Poohblah /img/forum/go_quote.gif i've never quite understood where humble pie got their name... i've never liked it, anyway. i think it's some kind of saying? i'm not in the know.

The old expression was "To eat humble pie." It meant to be brought down or humbled, as you might guess. Here's the entry from Dictionary.com:


humble pie
–noun 1. humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
2. Obsolete. a pie made of the viscera and other inferior parts of deer or the like.
—Idiom3. eat humble pie, to be forced to apologize humbly; suffer humiliation: He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error.


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[Origin: 1640–50; earlier phrase an umble pie, erroneous for a numble pie; see numbles]

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[Vergex2]

Children of Bodom [named after a horrific atrocity]

 

[VicAjax]

Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles

 

[Quaddy]

60 ft of stupid

 

[edart]

Elastic.

 

[Quaddy]

nickelback

why?

Lead singer Chad Kroeger was having trouble coming up with a name, and so approached his brother, who worked at a Starbucks. Coffee was $1.95, which meant every customer who paid two bucks got-waiiiit for it-a nickel back.

 

[DrBenway]

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Originally Posted by Quaddy /img/forum/go_quote.gif nickelback why? Lead singer Chad Kroeger was having trouble coming up with a name, and so approached his brother, who worked at a Starbucks. Coffee was $1.95, which meant every customer who paid two bucks got-waiiiit for it-a nickel back.

To tell you the truth, if Nickelback were named "The Beatles," I would think The Beatles was the stupidest rock band name ever. The sound of that guy's voice sends me lunging for the radio dial (Ever heard of laxatives, dude?).

I recently heard their awful song, "Figured You Out" for the first time. I was completely stunned by the sheer, mindless misogyny of it. How do morons like that even get women to talk to them?

I've actually read some critical praise for those losers lately. When derision is heaped on a terrible band, a few critics will try to attract attention to themselves by taking the contrarian view, no matter how hard the group su-u-u-cks. In this case the band in question sucks like a freakin' Hoover. Yeesh.



I've also got another inane, dumbass band name:

Airborne Toxic Event.

Haven't heard them; maybe they're great. But the pretentious, obscure name doesn't exactly pique my curiosity, know what I mean?

 

[chadbang]

A metal band called "Black Fork" I think its supposed to sound satanic, but it sounds more like bad dishwashing.

 

[DrBenway]

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Originally Posted by chadbang /img/forum/go_quote.gif A metal band called "Black Fork" I think its supposed to sound satanic, but it sounds more like bad dishwashing.

Heh. Never heard of them, but that's Spinal-Tap worthy. Reminds me for some reason of the infamous "Stonehenge" scene. Not quite the effect they intended, sounds like.

 

[Quaddy]

Agoraphobic Nosebleed

 

[funmusicguy310]

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Originally Posted by roadtonowhere08 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Two words: An_l C_nt If you can figure it out, you will know what I mean. Horrible in all aspects

what band is it ?

 

[milkweg]

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Originally Posted by Vergex2 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Children of Bodom [named after a horrific atrocity]

I didn't know that but do now.


Lake Bodom murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There's an electronica group called 'Children of the Bong', which I find funny because one of my nicks on another forum was 'Bong Boy' before I had even heard of that group.

 

[milkweg]

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Originally Posted by chadbang /img/forum/go_quote.gif A metal band called "Black Fork" I think its supposed to sound satanic, but it sounds more like bad dishwashing.

Yea, at least they could use PitchFork as that sounds a bit more menacing than just Fork.

 

[bakercj93]

Yeah, there are plenty of metal bands that should be on this list. They all try to come up with the most offensive name possible (to be scary?), and more often than not, it just ends up being comical.

Few good ones:
The Atomic Bitchwax
Fondlecorpse
Terminally your Aborted Ghost
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

 

[Calexico]

Looking through the first page, I don't see any of these names are bad at all, besides a few like the one that roadtonowhere08 posted.

Looking through my own library, the only ones that bother me are Planet X (sci-fi fodder), Sweatshop Union (don't understand why there is a reference to sweatshops), Emma-Lee (the dash annoys me), Opeth (probably bias because I find the band very corny, but the name seems corny to me as well), and Dead Can Dance (I don't know if it it's Dead Can Dance as in able to dance or like tin can dance)