# Need an team name, hopefully electronic component related **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868 "2012-06-21T18:20:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/1 "2012-06-21T18:20:43Z")
I got volunteered to come up with a team name, and I’m totally blanking out. Anyone have a witty idea, ideally a play on electronics somehow? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/2 "2012-06-21T18:25:04Z")
Work team, sports team or other? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/3 "2012-06-21T18:27:48Z")
The Resistors? The Processors? Gawd those are terrible. I got nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/4 "2012-06-21T18:31:41Z")
The Mega Hurts. The Giga Biters. Flash Drivers. . ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/5 "2012-06-21T18:32:30Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > The Mega Hurts. Hertz. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/6 "2012-06-21T18:32:48Z")
Circuit Breakers Motherboards? Bored Mothers? Scuzzies Flux Capacitors GFI Could Only Win ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/7 "2012-06-21T18:34:39Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Hertz. Play on words. Sports name. You’ll get it. Hurts as in ‘we’ll hurt you’. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/8 "2012-06-21T18:47:54Z")
What are you playing? ---
**Author:** ![dexter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@dexter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dexter)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/9 "2012-06-21T18:54:28Z")
The Traveling Wave Tubes? The Hard Drives? The Phase Locked Loops? If you’re old school, and esp. if a five man team, The Pentodes The Electro-Motive Force? The Rectifiers? The Super Heterodynes? I got a million of `em.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/10 "2012-06-21T19:09:13Z")
The Futile Resistors. ---
**Author:** ![dexter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@dexter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dexter)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/11 "2012-06-21T19:15:53Z")
If you want to keep `em guessing, The Time Domain Reflectometers. The Capacitive Reactance? Then you could just put Xc on the jerseys! ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/12 "2012-06-21T19:18:28Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Work team, sports team or other? Work team. Thanks for all the ideas. As of right now, I’m kind of grooving on “Flux Capacitors”. Now why the heck didn’t I think of that? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/13 "2012-06-21T19:20:44Z")
The Silicon Nodules ---
**Author:** ![dexter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@dexter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dexter)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/14 "2012-06-21T19:27:35Z")
One more! One more! ( dodging the cane used to remove hams from the stage). Total Impedance! Zt on the jerseys! Ack! ( the cane’s on my throat now). ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/15 "2012-06-21T19:48:33Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > Work team. > > Thanks for all the ideas. As of right now, I’m kind of grooving on “Flux Capacitors”. > Now why the heck didn’t I think of that? Make sure someone get the number of 1.21 on their jersey. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/16 "2012-06-22T00:14:57Z")
Go retro with it: The Cordless Phones TEAM FORTRAN The World Wide Webiverts ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/17 "2012-06-22T00:33:33Z")
Motherboarders ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/18 "2012-06-22T00:41:19Z")
I know it’s not electronic component-related, and I don’t know who came up with it, but I always liked the Fighting Ignorants. Most people wouldn’t get it, though. The Integrated Circuits? Edit: Or the Integrated Circus ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/19 "2012-06-22T01:22:56Z")
Hmm. **The DIPs** or **DIP Switches** **Rosin Corps Sold** i**er(s)** **The Ball Grid Array** **The Wire Rappers** (if you want a retro/hip-hop image) **Core Dumpers / Corps Dumpers** (not really about components) I can’t decide whether I’m trying to be helpful or obnoxious. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-team-name-hopefully-electronic-component-related/625868/20 "2012-06-22T14:39:23Z")
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