# I need a team name!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 14, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001 "2000-01-14T19:08:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/1 "2000-01-14T19:08:00Z")
Will you guys help me look good? My department at work (webhosting tech support) is supposed to come up with a team name. All the good ones have been taken, including RTFM and Core Dump, but I _know_ you guys can help me. PLEEEEEEAAAAASE?
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### Author:  [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/2 "2000-01-14T19:13:00Z")
I think “Toledo Mudhens” is still available.
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“To do her justice, I can’t see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she’d thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
_Busman’s Honeymoon_
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/3 "2000-01-14T19:16:00Z")
There ya go. Take that one and I’ll send ya some t-shirts.
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What do I believe in? Not much that can’t be proven by logic and scientific experiment, and you better believe, I want to see the logic and laboratory equipment. --P.J. O’Rourke–
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### Author:  [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/4 "2000-01-14T19:42:00Z")
**I1269U**
I always liked this one.
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### Author:  [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/5 "2000-01-14T19:47:00Z")
ID-10-T error
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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### Author:  [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/6 "2000-01-14T19:56:00Z")
You could make a pun on “web”. Like Cobb’s Web Support. Or Pain Webbers. Webbles - We Wobble but Won’t Let You Fall Down.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_North](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_North)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/7 "2000-01-14T20:08:00Z")
How about BIER? or Prisoners of Gravity?
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### Author:  [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/8 "2000-01-14T20:25:00Z")
the phoukas?
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/9 "2000-01-14T20:28:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Boris B:
> **You could make a pun on “web”. Like Cobb’s Web Support.**
I work for the **C** ity **o** f **B** erkeley, ergo, our website is known as the CoBWeb. Cute, huh? (Nah, I didn’t think so.)
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**StoryTyler**
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”
[I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage)
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### Author:  [@Doctordec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctordec)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/10 "2000-01-14T20:39:00Z")
North American Demons
The team chant is “GO NADS, GO NADS !!”
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“Hope is not a method”
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### Author:  [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/11 "2000-01-14T20:49:00Z")
No, StoryTyler, I like it. Really. It confirms that I have the collective brains of everyone in the city of Berkeley. … Right?
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### Author:  [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/12 "2000-01-14T21:38:00Z")
The Team Formerly Known As Prince.
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### Author:  [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/13 "2000-01-14T21:44:00Z")
Well to look tough you could always use “The Webinators”
Or the Webonauts…
Or the Webutantes (thats not as tough I admit)
## Just to give away the secret of these great names? Just put the word web at the beginning of other words. I know…whoda thunk it! 😛
-Frankie
Lack of charisma can be fatal
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/14 "2000-01-14T21:49:00Z")
Webphoukas?
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### Author:  [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/15 "2000-01-14T21:53:00Z")
Uncle Beer got it first try!
Whoohoo this is a smart bunch!
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-Frankie
Lack of charisma can be fatal
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### Author:  [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/16 "2000-01-14T22:32:00Z")
Max, hon…how did I _know_ you’d use that?
As for team names…hmmm. Well, my fantasy football team was the Beladonnas…no? Oh well. Nevermind! 🙂
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“You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!” - Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/17 "2000-01-14T22:34:00Z")
How about the Rabid Chipmunks? It would strike terror in the heart of your opponents, if they didn’t die laughing first.
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### Author:  [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/18 "2000-01-14T23:16:00Z")
I’ve always been tempted to name a team the Screaming Hairless Gerbils.
Dunno why
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The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
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### Author:  [@Mc\_Ph\_st\_Y\_Cheesehead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mc_Ph_st_Y_Cheesehead)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/19 "2000-01-14T23:17:00Z")
What about Chip Creep? =)
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Mc[Ph|st]Y Cheesehead
“Software is like sex, it’s better when it’s free.” -Linus Torvalds on the software industry.
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/20 "2000-01-14T23:20:00Z")
Free Beer, it might get you a few extra players ;).
Keith
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You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!!
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