Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!decwrl!decvax!dartvax!merchant From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Thompson Twins -- Where'd they get that name? Message-ID: <1872@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 12:52:48 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.1872 Posted: Mon Jun 18 12:52:48 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 06:44:55 EDT Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 16 { 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