# I need a team name! **URL:** \ **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:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/21 "2000-01-15T05:56:00Z")
Flaming Folders? 😛 How about the Fatal Errors or the Lost Connections or the Highlighted Links or something dorky\* like that? 🆒 And here’s one I stole from someone else (which somewhat describes the techie people at work, in a scarily bizarre way): The Friendly Icy Black Hand of Death Club. \*I spent too much time with my little sister when she was home for Christmas. Can someone please smack the shit out of me next time I use the word “dorky”? Thanks much. * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. “We are here! You are saved!” --R. & F. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/22 "2000-01-15T06:19:00Z")
You can borrow my team name from my two-time defending internet fantasy football championship team, the Fighting Ferrets. * * * “In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” - Ecclesiastes 1:18 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/23 "2000-01-15T10:14:00Z")
The Alpha Squirrels. The Winners. F-U. ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/24 "2000-01-15T10:58:00Z")
C’mon, it can’t be that hard to think of a webby techy supporty-type name. How about: -The 404s? The very mention of your team name would frustrate the other teams to the extent that they wouldn’t be able to work at all. -Colon Slash Slash (although that’s a bit grisly)? -The Aich-Tees? Then your base of operations would be the Aich-Tee TeePee. -The Missing Tags? -A-Href? As in the HTML code for a hyperlink. As in links in a chain. As in all the members of your team are linked together like in a chain and there aren’t any weak links and you’re all one big happy family and…oh never mind. -The Dubious Internet-Based Company With Ridiculously High Stock Prices? Yeah, I’m running out of ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/25 "2000-01-15T11:28:00Z")
I don’t have a suggestion for a name…but here is a suggestion for a team motto: “We keep it up all night” * * * Krispy Original – voted SDMB’s 19th most popular poster (1999) ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/26 "2000-01-15T11:57:00Z")
The Mahirs? I Kiss You! ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/27 "2000-01-17T15:27:00Z")
When I was working in Seattle, our team name was “The Space Needle Exchange”… ## As far as techie names go, Et Tu, D2? Perl Divers Klingons on Uranus The FAT 16 (or 32 for the 98 support group) Jolt IV McTechies Cube Chair Ass [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) Computers have let mankind make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/28 "2000-01-17T17:34:00Z")
A college friend of mine was on an intramural team that called themselves the “Boise Idaho”. It was one of those jokes that made everyone else just say “What?” ---
**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/29 "2000-01-17T21:28:00Z")
Bastard Operators From Hell ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/30 "2000-01-17T23:49:00Z")
At Dynamix, Inc., where I worked in 1992, our volleyball team was called “The Monkeybutts”, and our softball team was called “Pray For Rain.” At Wyse Technology, of course, we just called ourselves “The Wyse Guys.” But every time I play Sim City 2000 and install a sports stadium, I call my local team “The Avenging Aardvarks.” (I stole that from an episode of _Tom Slick_.) * * * The truth, as always, is more complicated than that. ---
**Author:** ![WIU\_Wozman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WIU\_Wozman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIU_Wozman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/31 "2000-01-18T21:13:00Z")
How about the Vinylnecks? I’ll let you use it. * * * View every exit as an entrance someplace else ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/32 "2000-01-23T01:41:00Z")
How about “Dilbert’s Henchmen” ---
**Author:** ![lovelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@lovelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001/33 "2000-01-23T02:33:00Z")
The name “Army of the Twelve Monkeys” always worked well for recreational volleyball. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-team-name/13001.md?page=1)