Fish lures often have evocative names. So do rock bands. Can you discern or detect which of the following names belongs to a fish lure and which to a rock band?
(You may find hints by consulting the published philosophical literature on the question “What’s in a name?” And you may not.)
The answers appear on page 30 of this issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.
1. Aqua
2. Betty’s Fish Bag
3. Blind Melon
4. Blotto
5. Bobberstop
6. Bomber A-salt
7. Boo Jig
8. Booyah Flair Hair Jigs
9. Boy Howdy
10. Bright Blue Gorilla
11. Buckethead
12. Bulk Tube
13. Buzz’n Frog
14. Canadian Grizzly
15. Cannon Bear
16. Crazy Evelyn
17. Crazy Frog
18. Crazy Shad
19. Crickhopper Popper
20. Deacon Blue
21. Devil’s Horse
22. Dexy’s Midnight Runners
23. Eve 6
24. Fat A
25. Hocus Locust
26. Hula Popper
27. King Missile
28. Lazy Ike
29. Level 42
30. Monster Magnet
31. Pond Magic Buzz
32. Rebel Jawbreaker
33. Red Neck Girlfriend
34. Ripplin’ Red Fin
35. Silverchair
36. Sputterbuzz
37. Superspot
38. T Pau
39. Wally Demon
40. Wally Diver
41. Wee-R Family
42. Wiggle O
43. Wooly Beavertail
44. Xz2 Zell Pop
45. Zara Spook
(That’s an excerpt from the article “Cooties and the Consumer,” by Dany Adams, published in AIR 14:4.)