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27. Toad the wet sprocket because of how they claimed to make the name

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:03 PM

Sep 5

4 band members wrote down words and they pulled them randomly in order to name the band.

The assumption was always that the drummer wrote "the" because it was the only word they could spell correctly.

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