Start with a name
Jul.14, 2006, filed under Miscellany
It has been… what? 4 months since I left Devon? So far the only things I’m really missing are my own bed and the Munky Band Name Generator.
Did I not ever tell you about that?
Well. As long-term readers will know, the conversations that Frood and I have tend towards the silly. Hence, for instance, Frood’s comment when we were watching some documentary about lightning with my Mum the night before last. The scientist on the screen, in a prelude to introducing the ignorant to the concepts of sprites and jets, is telling us all about how the storms of Texas are so vast and potent — the so-called ‘supercells’ — that they produce every kind of lightning imaginable.
Frood immediately interjects with “Cheese lightning?”
“Oh for god’s sake!” Mum snorts. She still hasn’t forgiven him for the ‘Boots of Death’.
“Well I imagined it!” says Frood.
This is fairly typical.
The Munky Band Name Generator was a bit like “And Finally…” in that random snippets of conversations would provoke a cry of “That’s a great band name!” and down it would go on the piece of paper that eventually gained the official title of the Munky Band Name Generator.
Examples included:
- The Withered Hand of Jeremy Beadle
- The Absent Magical Owl
- Colossal Arctic Ant
- The Thoughtform that is the Concept of Bleach
I wonder what Frood did with the list. We really ought to make them available to the world at large, and then perhaps we’ll get some interesting bands rather than the soft-pap vanilla mush that is the likes of Keane and Coldplay.
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
