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From: wall@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Wall)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Softball Team Names (summary of responses)
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Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 01:38:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 01:38:40 1984
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I received several responses to my request for interestin softball team
names, and someone asked me to post them to the net, so here you go...

Steve Wall
wall@ucbarpa
..!ucbvax!wall

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1) From ihnp4!drutx!rkp Tue Oct  9 10:07:51 1984

The strangest one in our league last year was:

	PENGUINS IN BONDAGE


2) From ihnp4!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!erik Wed Oct 10 13:27:30 1984

   Well, my own team's nickname is the 'Sting'. There is also a 
   team in our league that's known as 'Homegrown', with the 
   appropriate symbol on all of their jerseys. My real favorite
   is a pick-up team called 'The Excitable Boys'. Their emblem
   is a bat hanging vertically with a pair of softballs on either
   side at the top.


3) From ihnp4!masscomp!trb Wed Oct 10 13:28:09 1984

I played on Bell's Angels at Bell Labs Whippany, NJ.
We had a great T shirt with the Ma Bell logo with wings.
I don't think Bell Labbies are allowed to use the old Bell Logo
anymore.


4) From ihnp4!ihldt!frb Wed Oct 10 13:29:56 1984

	I played for three years (so far) on a softball
(actually sissy ball - (anyone who needs a glove to play
softball may as well also wear a dress (as you may tell,
I am from Chicago where REAL softball is played (16')
but that's another story))) team here at Bell Labs called
'Berfel's Lummox Farm'.
	Now this name has absolutely NO significance to
anything, but came about when our fearless leader was
organizing the team and requested suggestions for a
name for the team.  Two weeks or so passed without
a single suggestion, so in his infinite wisdom (and
spite) he named the team the most ridiculous thing
he could come up with and ran out and had the uniforms
printed before anyone could stop him.
	Despite the handicap we were respectable, and
the name kind of grew on us.


5) From ucla-cs!rick Wed Oct 10 21:52:12 1984

i have seen the Computer Center Data Basers, Computer Science Turing Machine,
and the Computer Science Terminal Cases.


6) From ihnp4!mhuxj!cbosgd!cbscc.UUCP!rsg Fri Oct 12 07:11:11 1984

Here's a couple:
	1. Back in the late 60s/early 70s when IBM was heavy into computers
	(are they still?), one of the common JCL commands was: //DD * (or
	something like that). Our Ohio State Computer Science Department
	graduate softball team was called the DD STARS.

	2. This is more common: the Figawees. Often we would be standing out
	in the field saying something like: What the f--- are we doing out
	here anyway? The "f--- are we" part translates directly. BTW, I've
	heard this name in lots of other environments.

	3. One of our coed teams is called: Internal Dissent. The men wear a
	shirt that says: Get me a beer. The women wear a shirt that says:
	Get it yourself.


7) From ihnp4!ihuxk!rs55611 Fri Oct 12 15:20:51 1984

There is another team in our Bell Labs softball league (I'm not on this
one) called Dilligas, which stands for "Do I look like I give a shit?"

We also have a Helidono  (say it fast).

Also, I had a friend who played on a team in an industrial league, but they
didn't have a company sponsor, so they created a fictional company:

"Beecher Tool and Die"