Didn't this exact same thing, more or less, happen with another bike sometime two or more years ago, which also announced that itw as a pipe bomb?
I somehow forgot to mention that I wanted other band names that would be innocuous for the band. How did that happen?
band names that would be innocuous for the band
ceci n'est pas une pipe bomb
Acids, huh? Better keep an eye on those guys.
17: I think it's important to note that every contribution helps. Thanks!
18: That's a terrible idea for a name, Stanley.
This sort of thing provided justification for one of the more embarrassing moments in New Zealand musical history --- Shihad (geddit?) who became Pacifier.
It's a bit of a national embarrassment, to be honest. Even the band themselves think it was a fucking sell out betrayal of all they stood for.
By the way "We're on a mission here" is a bad name. Not a contribution to the cause.
100% Red-Blooded American Mail (must be delivered)
No wait, maybe that's moving in the wrong direction.
Ah, pwned by the good ship jms. I was impressed that google returns nothing for that string.
29: It's cute that apo thinks that you can include hyperlinks on packages.
My Sweetheart the Small-Business Owner
We Play in Peoria
On tour with Welcomed In Boston.
Heart of the Heartland, Land of the Free, Brave to be Home, This Land is Mine, No Trespassing
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Clean, Not-Fucking, Non-Hippies
If you want to really paralyze the security theater troupes you might write: the statement on this bicycle is false.
26: Most of the names on this list would indeed work as names of Culture ships.
Sorry, I can only think of troublesome names:
300 Yards from 4,000 Cubans
Worst of the Worst
London Based Cell
The Taliban Cooks
Am I failing to get something here? But what's "crap" about it?
Mohammed Atta in Prague
My Other Bike is a Pipe Bomb
This Bike Only Bombs Abortion Clinics
See Something, Say Something
Geneva is Quaint
Unitary Executive Theory
Enhanced Interrogation Methods
State Secrets Privilege
Hey, Be A Skorpus!
Liquids and Gels in Containers Less than 3.4 Fluid Ounces
Explodes on Contact With Fat Cops
Rural Evangelical Conservative Heartland Country Band
Or, one of my favorite actual band names that is the antithesis: Gay Witch Abortion. (Apparently not a very good band, according to those who've seen them perform.)
Last Throes
Go Fuck Yourself
A Few Bad Apples
Dale Earnhardt's Other Car
Liquidity
The Bipartisan Ship
Pat Boone's Children Born Into Christian Wedlock
The 4-H Club Alumni
Fear Us, Longhairs and Queers
Never Ridden on Public Transit
Nostalgia for Parris Island
Applebee's Pickup Artists
Haditha Coroner's Office
The 4-H Club Alumni
Where is B, anyway?*
* I know, dealing with a new house.
Like George F. Will, But Not Such a Pussy
Medicare Part "D"
Truckstop Internet Connection
One-Lane Bridge Yielders
Valvoline Target Demographic
48 cracked me up.
83 rocks.
No disrespect to the many other excellent entries.
However, great disrespect to w-lfs-n for this:
Toby Kieth
Apparently, we need a band called
Toby Keith'll Put a Boot in I Before E's Ass
Quartet for Peace in the Middle East
Am I failing to get something here? But what's "crap" about it?
I didn't mean crap in the "this is crap!" sense. More like a synonym for "junk" or "stuff". Does that make any sense? I haven't caffeinated yet.
Manifest Destiny
The Invisible Hand
We Are All Transcendentally Materialistic Consumers Now
Grand Amalgamation of Corporatistic Entities for Making of Glorious Hegemonic Patriotic Material Goods Satisfaction
(branded as Buy N Large)
Peddling for the Patriarchy
Xe
re: 95
I think I thought you meant that there was something wrong about the pilot or police paying attention to the stickered bike.
99: No, I think that band's name on a sticker is likely to cause any object to garner extra scrutiny. Specifically, bikes, and more specifically, bikes at airports. I'm pretty much just having a laugh here. (Does anyone actually say "having a laugh" in the UK? I still wonder that after watching Extras.)
band names that would be innocuous for the band
The Police
The Cars
American Music Club
Boston
101: forgot, arguably, the most innocuous of all:
The Eagles
An older neighbor thought Slipknot had something to do with the Boy Scouts. "Granny Knot" - even more innocuous.
Prolife Jamboree
Heterosexual Manhug
Traditional Marriage is Better for Kids
Anathema to Islam
Better Dead than Red
Breeders for Christ
However, great disrespect to w-lfs-n for this:
Toby Kieth
That was intentional.
"This Bike is Republican"
"This Pipe Bomb Is Republican"
I think I thought you meant that there was something wrong about the pilot or police paying attention to the stickered bike.
I dunno. I kind of feel like the intersection between objects labeled "this is a pipe bomb" and objects that are, in fact, pipe bombs, is really, really close to the null set.
This, plus the fact that a bike would make for a shitty pipe bomb, leads me to question the value of evacuating a terminal over it. Maybe look for signs that the bike has been cut open and reassembled, and you're good to go.
re: 110
I don't think it's really fair to expect them to make that call. If I left a bike with a "this is a pipe bomb" type sticker on it, and the police blew it up, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
And I say this as someone generally not in favour of much/any of our current security-panic.
a bike would make for a shitty pipe bomb
The ghost of Alfred Herrhausen begs to differ.
Don't you live in a state where owning a camera is tantamount to signing on with the Taliban, ttaM?
Wouldn't a bike parked near a passenger ramp prompt people to ask questions anyway? Bike at the airport = weird. Bike labeled BOMB* at the airport = one of those dumb things you have to investigate.
* Bomb, or whatever
This story reminds me of a number of (possibly apocryphal) stories I've heard about people using HazMat placards as decoration only to be left trapped in their wrecked car while HazMat teams check the scene before they can be extracted.
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Obama's going right where McManus said he would go: entitlement reform. Right before that, "protecting the office of the president".
No surprise, no betrayal. Just what he said he'd do. I couldn't help dreaming, though.
My new political blog is active again, and I'm not talking about Al Franken any more. If people visit me there, maybe I'll stop trolling Unfogged with politics.
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No Games Please. (No Fatties Either!)
Blue the Back
Doughnut Repellent
This Bike Is On Youtube
Semper Fuck
One of the Ten Most Wanted... Laydeez
My Package is Explosively Huge
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
I Got Your Al-Queda Right Here
Communism... It's the Law
What Part of the 4th Amendment Do You Not Understand?
max
['Too long, yeah yeah.']
True Love Waits
Socialized Medicine Will Destroy America
Wholesome Entertainment
Figure-of-Eight Follow Through
Almost forgot: LizardBreath Needs to Go to the Gym
max
['WHAT? What is that? Some kind of CODE?']
Yea, LB, get to the gym and put that donut down!
It's an apple, not a donut, and I'm going as soon as I address this envelope. I should be careful about what I ask for -- Brad Delong's readers must be mystified.
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
Hey! That's a real one!
As is Dayglo Abortions.
We own both on vinyl.
I am surprised that nobody's suggested "9/11 Changed Everything" as a band name yet. It would also have the advantage of getting you listed nearer the front of alphabetically sorted lists.
121: I'm going as soon as I address this envelope.
Are we supposed to pester you more tomorrow, or cease with the pestification?
I should be careful about what I ask for
That's what George Bush said. There's a book in there: 'LB's Valuable Moral Lessons for Young Lawyers (Or Just the Young)'
It could be like 'Where's My Cheese?', but not stupid.
Brad Delong's readers must be mystified.
Since apparently many people who read DeLong also believe in a strange form of economics where tax cuts equal manna from heaven and spending means death, it hardly makes any difference.
Hey! That's a real one!
I was... recycling.
As is Dayglo Abortions. We own both on vinyl.
Is this a good place to whine about having to part ways with my collection of the first fifty LPs issued by Wax Trax? Somebody at Half-Price got a deal.
max
['Nobody expects the Spanish Proposition.']
Are we supposed to pester you more tomorrow, or cease with the pestification?
The pestilence will continue until LB wins the NYC marathon.
Men's Division.
This is not your father's pipe bomb.
Weapon of Mass DestructionTransit
I guess 131 would only work on some kind of super tandem bicycle.
I liked "A Few Bad Apples," suggested above, but I think it should function like "The Pips," as in: "Stanley and the Few Bad Apples".
How about "Bad Apple and the Whole Bunch"?
Didn't we already establish that your new band was going to be named "The Angry Anger"?
Anger Anger could be the new The The.
max
['Also: Happy Happy, Die Die.']
re: 114
God, yes. Listing all the ways in which my government wants to fuck with me, and with basic civil liberties would take all day.
But, speaking as someone whose country used to feature fairly regular bombings, I think I got used to the idea that the police took suspicious packages seriously [even obviously 'joke' suspicious packages] a long time before the current shower of illiberal fear-mongering bastards came to power.
Further to 138, I should have written:
Speaking as someone who had the police at his door not that long ago asking about the bombs they found at the end of my street ....*
* animal rights types left a couple of bombs there a year or so back.
Gravitas Defying
(in honor of Keir)
Toby Kieth
That was intentional.
Whatever you need to tell yourself.
Didn't we already establish that your new band was going to be named "The Angry Anger"?
Yes, that matter was already settled. This is a different and more weighty national-security-related civic project. I probably should have had a different-colored post title to emphasize that fact.
Because it's the band, not the person, SK.