# Help name a gay-bowling team.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 19, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894 "2002-12-19T21:06:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/1 "2002-12-19T21:06:26Z")
A friend of mine and his other 3 team mates are on course to finish 45th out of 49 teams in their Long Island (metro NYC) GLBT bowling league.
The 4 of them are self-described “poor to average” bowlers. Taking all 11 is something they rarely do.
I told him I think their problem is the team name: **The Alley-Oops**
“Yuch! That’s the best you guys could come up with?”
“_Well…We’re not that creative._”
“So much for stereotypes.”
“_What do you suggest?_”
"Whether you wan’t to quote Shakespeare or use numerology, in my opinion a quality name _could_ foster teamwork, improve your averages and help increase your rank in the standings. I thing you should switch it to:
**We Suck! (Literally & Figuratively)**
But before you commit to making a change, let me poll some creative dopers and see what the can recommend."
“_Who or what are the creative dopers?_”
“You remember that link I e-mailed you last spring about your employer’s (Burger King) Cluck Cluck Cluck promotion?”
“_Oh yeah, that was funny. If you think they could come up with a great name, please go and ask them. Tell them they can be as witty, crude or raw as they wish_”
“Done. I’ll e-mail their suggestions next week”
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/2 "2002-12-19T21:10:12Z")
Great Balls of Fire.
Step, Two, Three, Swish!
The Hardwood Rollers
The Four Tops.
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/3 "2002-12-19T21:23:06Z")
Keglin’ Sodomites
The Guys Who Already Had Shoes That Color
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### Author:  [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/4 "2002-12-19T21:25:55Z")
Ball Handlers
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### Author:  [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/5 "2002-12-19T21:29:17Z")
The Finger Holes
The Pin Boys
Splitz! (The Musical!)
No no no! Just thought of the perfect one!
Bowl Jobs
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/6 "2002-12-19T21:34:16Z")
I’m not wearing _those_ shoes!
(stereotypes are fun) 😃
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### Author:  [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/7 "2002-12-19T21:36:39Z")
The Gutter Balls
ahhh, I got nuthin’…but Bowl Jobs was hilarious…
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/8 "2002-12-19T21:38:49Z")
**Fifteen Pound Balls**
**The Picked-Up Spares** (I’m not really sure what this means, but it sounds dirty)
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### Author:  [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/9 "2002-12-19T21:40:31Z")
Holy shit, what a straight line! Off the top of my head:
The Ball Strokers
Up our Alley
and, if they’re all small in stature…
The Spinners
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/10 "2002-12-19T21:42:21Z")
The Other Gutter Ballers.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/11 "2002-12-19T21:43:29Z")
Shit, **superbee** beat me to the gutter. Course, he was closer. 🙂
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/12 "2002-12-19T21:45:35Z")
The Back Alley Strikers.
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### Author:  [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/13 "2002-12-19T21:50:25Z")
I don’t know if this is such a good idea for a thread here. Do we really have to make jokes at other people’s expense?
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### Author:  [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/14 "2002-12-19T21:55:24Z")
Alley Cruisers
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### Author:  [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/15 "2002-12-19T21:57:30Z")
Y’know **lieu** …I had a feeling this thread would be right up your alley… 😃
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/16 "2002-12-19T21:58:35Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Surreal \*
> \*\*I don’t know if this is such a good idea for a thread here. Do we really have to make jokes at other people’s expense? \*\*
The OP has over 500 posts. I think he knew exactly what he might get.
BTW this is one of the funniest threads I’ve seen recently.
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/17 "2002-12-19T22:00:27Z")
Plus you’re from “Gobblers Knob.”
'Nuf said.
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/18 "2002-12-19T22:01:34Z")
limp wristed gutter ballers
the pastel pins
All that and some to spare
Closet bowlers
The fashionably astute
The alley queens from Queens
The Alley of the Dolls
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/19 "2002-12-19T22:05:23Z")
**We’ve Never Had Time To Learn To Bowl, What With All The Cocksucking**
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### Author:  [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-a-gay-bowling-team/143894/20 "2002-12-19T22:08:58Z")
The Jeff Strikers
The Back Alley Ballers
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