Rock Bands Name Origins

Full list here, but here are a few examples: 

THIRD EYE BLIND – Our third eye is the imagined one that gives us a kind of sixth sense (telepathy, ESP, etc.) and the band felt that most of us are blind in that sense.

WEEZER – Band member Rivers Cuomo had the nickname Weezer in school because of a breathing problem.

BEASTIE BOYS – According to Michael Diamond, BEASTIE stands for Boys Entering Anarchistic Stages Towards Internal Excellence.

HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH – from the nicknames of two friends of singer/guitarist Darius Rucker – one with owl-like eyes (Hootie), another with the puffy “Blowfish” cheeks.

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Opening A Can of 20 Year Old Bacon

This site is dedicated to preserving the ever-popular Celebrity Foods Canned Bacon. Although this product hasn’t been on store shelves since K-Mart cancelled it more than a decade ago, join us in a opening a can of 20 year old bacon that was still just as fresh today as the day it was canned.

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No mention if they actually ate it, but there are pictures of the bacon in the skillet.

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Navy fires electromagnetic railgun at record power level

DAHLGREN, Va. (AP) – A futuristic weapon getting a trial run by the Navy demonstrated its destructive power at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren.In the demonstration Thursday, engineers fired the electromagnetic railgun at what they said was a record power level: 10 megajoules.

Current Navy guns generate about 9 megajoules of muzzle energy.

Railguns use electromagnetic energy to launch projectiles long distances – more than 200 nautical miles.

Because the railgun uses electricity and not gunpowder to fire projectiles, it eliminates the possibility of explosions on ships.

The Navy hopes the railgun will eventually replace the standard 5-inch gun on its ships. The weapon isnÂ’t expected to be deployed until at least 2020.

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