2 months back, Hari had called me up and he said "Dude, suggest some team names for cricket" and then I was like "Ok, give me sometime.". That time went on from 10 minutes to an hour to the whole day and the next day and went on over months. By that time these guys finished their game and the team had already bagged 6th place out of 84 teams.
The point is it's becoming so hard to come out with jazzy names. Be it for your signin name for forums, social websites, team names, siggies, so many.
Personally there are only two that I could muster - aquinn_21, yossarain(ya I know, it's
yossarian and not
yossarain). The former stuck with me for long time and was a bit popular too among folks at my college. Popular as in people know who the Quinn is kind. It's also my yahoo ID and goes without saying the period when it became popular and subsequently vanished into oblivion with G coming up. It sounded funky, looks cool and that's it.
Blog came along right at the end of 4-1 or beginning, not sure. Fresh out of
Catch-22, one of the most profound books giving an insight into what a war really is about, gave rise to my next psuedo-name yossarain - a perfectly safe and unique name. I used it for all the sites to login from then on. Days went by and it was some article I read I realized the fad of having such names is a passe and it is high time we start valuing our own names. So true, indeed. That's our identity and it is YOU after all.
No wonder Facebook looks so professional than Orkut with what some names like #~~@#$% or such kind just for the heck of it.
Yet, the need of a pseudo identity which means something, a creative YOU persisted. I confess I am still on the tryouts for good ones. So going back to the team names, I was literally stuck for sometime zeroing on one. I googled for names, got a list and it wasn't really what I was looking for. The taste of Indianness is missing. I called ahem ahem Hari and asked for it. Surprisingly he had a huge list of team names in alphabets and almost all of them were trite and expressionless. Doesn't have that aggressiveness and machoism I was looking at when you are naming a team for Cricket nonetheless.
Used my own brain and here are what I came out with. -
Crickit
Kaminey
Mean Machines
The Angels
Avengers
The Dark Knights (My favorite)
Phoenecians
I know excepting for Kaminey and Crickit, everything were again the bunch of tried and tested team names. MY team on the other hand liked none of these and they didn't have any suggestions either.
'Kaminey' was unanimously voted the best by 3 different third-party candidates and that clinched the deal. It was just the right word I was looking for and I damn well knew the mystique, the roughness et all that it creates.
What followed next was an anthem and a team logo (the next post). Well, I would just like to know all ya guys/gals out there do drop in any funky cool names you can think of be it a individual or as a team and do share your experiences in naming a 'name'.
P.S. - Have already received good number of flak for using heavy words. So apart from that any general comments, I highly welcome it. And yeah, the lack of rhyming is done too
