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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Thompson Twins -- Where'd they get that name?
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Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 12:52:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 18 12:52:48 1984
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{  Ah, my beauty past compare...  }

Here's another possible trivia question that has had me going
for awhile:  Does anyone know where the Thompson Twins came up
with that name?  None of them are twins and none of them are
named Thompson.

My own theory is that they got it from the Tintin series of
cartoon books.  In the books, there is a pair of bumbling 
detectives who look alike.  One of them is Thompson and the
other is Thomson.  I'm wondering whether this might be it...
anyone know for certain?
--
"I got a feelin' that I'm gonna be alive forever                Peter Merchant
 Dancin' on the edge of a grave."  -- Jim Steinman