# Please, please tell me now...I mean, please ruin a band's name for me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845 "2005-03-29T22:58:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845/1 "2005-03-29T22:58:41Z")
I was just searching for info on [Doctor Who](http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/), and I came across a bit of [humor](http://tv.cream.org/lookin/drwho/1stdr/11.htm) . It suggested that there be a spin of of the first season, to be called: > [@](#): > > THE WOTAN CLAN Featuring: [WOTAN](http://www.aggedor.com/images/War_Machines/wm2.jpg) , the over-sized super computer and its army of War Machines (from The War Machines, 1965) > From London’s Post Office Tower, WOTAN and its army of automatons with their caterpillar trails and enormous crushing arms take the world of confrontational rap music by storm. “Fantastic!” – Blue Peter presenter, Christopher Trace. Somehow, that struck me as hilarious. So, I am asking fellow posters to ruin the names of popular bands, possibly by amalgamating them with names of other thing, or by any other formula. By, the way. I searched for threads about band names, but all I found were ones about real bands.[searched](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=784058) PS. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845/2 "2005-03-29T23:39:02Z")
Coming soon to a garden near you it’s: The Beatles The Beach Boys finally realize that they’re the Beach Men. A Rolling Stone will gather lots of moola. “Beauty and the Beasty Boys” A music video cartoon by Walt Disney Coming soon from the creators of “Toad the wet sprocket” comes “Bicycle Repairmen” “Right here, live on our stage, it’s the four boys from Liverpill…” Yes it’s true, Metallica really is in it for the money. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845/3 "2005-03-30T00:46:28Z")
Hehe 😃 However, I need to correct you on The Bicycle Repair Men, for they are a real band. I recall having seen them on TV. [http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/bicycle.htm](http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/bicycle.htm) [Pictures of the group](http://images.google.com/images?q=Bicycle%20Repair%20Man&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi) ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845/4 "2005-03-30T14:11:14Z")
Here are a few from the 90s, not the best decade for music: [Unbelievable](http://www.emf-theband.com/exclusivemusic.html) - [EMP](http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.military.naval/browse_thread/thread/f4e93a21e58c35d1/fe93c8acbb734203?q=EMP+%2Bcell+phones&rnum=8#fe93c8acbb734203) Lump - Presidents for Life of the United States of America Steal My Sunshine - [LENsman](http://www.outel.org/decomposed/goe/lensfaq.html) Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Deep Blue Something something…[I don’t remember your _name_, Davey!](http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/virus) ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845/5 "2005-03-30T18:20:34Z")
Now, this is another post by me, but oh well. Now, I was just reading the comic strip [Sluggy Freelance](http://www.sluggy.com/), when I came upon an amazing layout of a musical inside one of the comics. The Storyline starts out [here](http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030807), and goes to the main event, The Cylon King, [here.](http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030810). The title comes from The Original version of Battlestar Galactica, but the really funny line, which is almost on topic comes in the end. It’s I knew we should have seen"Thoroughly Merciless Ming." You know, not that I think about it, this isn’t getting to many results. The last one, from furryman was good, but I want more. Keeping that in mind, I invite anyone to combine the names of any media properties together to come up with something funny, or to use the old rules. Or, I suppose to look for something else to do. No skin off my back. For example: I could combine Cats - The Musical, with Willard, and…ew… There isn’t anything left. Never mind. :smack: Try again. I’ll take the broadway show “Rent” and combine it with the dark comedy “The Butcher Boy” to make: “Rent Boy!” Never mind. I can’t seem to get away from disturbing stuff _or_ musicals. No wait, they’re the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845/6 "2005-03-30T19:41:15Z")
Star Wars: The Phantom Of The Opera Menace The Truth About Cats: A love story starring the cast of Cats Kittens: Cats starring an all child cast. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845/7 "2005-03-31T21:29:43Z")
“Jesus Christ, Superhero” By Stan Lee and Andrew Lloyd Webber “Das Show Boot” To relieve the tension of manning a sub during warfare, these Nazis sing and dance. “Oh, Godspell” George Burns does a rock opera. Thousands flee in terror. “My Own Private Oklahoma” A rich ecentric kidnaps the road troupe of Okalhoma and forces them to preform for him every night. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-please-tell-me-now-i-mean-please-ruin-a-bands-name-for-me/296845/8 "2005-03-31T21:36:40Z")
Nice ones, furryman!