15. "RE: TFLF Chapter 16: Discovery"
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LAST EDITED ON Aug-11-18 AT 02:27 AM (EDT)
>>>"What do you call your band?" >>>"'What Do We Call Our Band?'" >>>"Uh... that was the question." >>>"It is also the answer." >>>"...I'm confused." >> >>Alternatively, 'We Are Not Very Good' > >A popular recreation in my circle at WPI in the early '90s was to go >through the concerts-and-shows sections of local indie/alternative >papers, marveling at the band names. The one that remains most >prominent in my memory was called "I've Been Shot", but there was >another one called "Shitty Shitty Band Band".
Back about the same period, I briefly ran a TfOS game online, in which one of the PCs was a member of "Severe Tire Damage". The band logo, as seen on T-shirts etc, was a reproduction of the warning sign(s) that (used to?) accompany one-way spike gates - "Do Not Back Up, SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE".