Geico Gecko |
This computer animated lizard pitchman was thought up by the Martin Agency in 2000. The premise: a gecko is annoyed that people keep calling him because they are confusing his number with the in...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:44:00 GMT |
Germans |
Reuters news story - "Police stopped a 10-year old boy who was pedaling his toy car alongside a road in central Germany in the middle of the nigt. The boy said he was on his way to his grandmoth...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:24:00 GMT |
Band names : Wings |
Paul McCartney came up with it while waiting in a hospital wing as his wife Linda was giving birth to one of their children.
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:14:00 GMT |
Band names : Nine Inch Nails |
Nine-inch nails are used in coffins. Singer Trent Reznor made a list of potential band names and settled on this one because "it still sounded good after two weeks" and could be easily abbreviat...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:12:00 GMT |
Band names : TLC |
It's not what you think. It comes from the first letters of each of the group's first names : Tionne, Lisa and Crystal
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:11:00 GMT |
Band names : Fall Out Boy |
In their early years, they asked an audience what their name should be. Somebody yelled "Fall Out Boy." They liked it and took it, unaware that it was the name of a character on The Simpso...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:21:00 GMT |
Band names : Badfinger |
They were originally called the Iveys. When they signed with the Beatles' Apple Records label, Paul McCartney gave them the name. It was the original title of the Beatles song "A Little He...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:19:00 GMT |
Band names : Moody Blues |
They named the band in honor of one of their favorite songs - Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo.'
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:17:00 GMT |
Band names : Def Leppard |
Singer Joe Elliot once drew a picture of a leopard with no ears - a 'deaf leopard.'
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:23:00 GMT |
Band names : Black Sabbath |
From a 1963 Boris Karloff movie.
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:21:00 GMT |
