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.
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.
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?”
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.
