{"id":540,"date":"2006-07-14T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=540"},"modified":"2006-07-14T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T09:42:00","slug":"start-with-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2006\/07\/14\/start-with-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Start with a name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/tghat.jpg\" alt=\"Wistful sigh\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>It has been&#8230; what? 4 months since I left Devon? So far the only things I&#8217;m really missing are my own bed and the Munky Band Name Generator.<\/p>\n<p>Did I not ever tell you about that?<\/p>\n<p>Well. As long-term readers will know, the conversations that <a href=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/frood\">Frood<\/a> and I have tend <a href=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/hippy\/conclusions.html\">towards the silly<\/a>. Hence, for instance, Frood&#8217;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 &mdash; the so-called &#8216;supercells&#8217; &mdash; that they produce every kind of lightning imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Frood immediately interjects with &#8220;Cheese lightning?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh for god&#8217;s sake!&#8221; Mum snorts. She still hasn&#8217;t forgiven him for the &#8216;Boots of Death&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well <i>I<\/i> imagined it!&#8221; says Frood.<\/p>\n<p>This is fairly typical.<\/p>\n<p>The Munky Band Name Generator was a bit like &#8220;And Finally&#8230;&#8221; in that random snippets of conversations would provoke a cry of &#8220;That&#8217;s a great band name!&#8221; and down it would go on the piece of paper that eventually gained the official title of the <b>Munky Band Name Generator<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Examples included:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #ffcccc;\">\n<li>The Withered Hand of Jeremy Beadle\n<\/li>\n<li>The Absent Magical Owl\n<\/li>\n<li>Colossal Arctic Ant\n<\/li>\n<li>The Thoughtform that is the Concept of Bleach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wonder what Frood did with the list. 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