What is the name of your (future) rock band?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What is the name of your (future) rock band?

Students were all over the place with this.

• Name Pending
• Axaxaxau Mlö
• Hello hello
• Archangels
• Wonder Wall (we would only do covers of Wonder Wall)
• DM & the B's
• Sam
• The Rock Belt
• Merry-Go-Round
• The 3 [student's own name]s
• Frank
• Goofy Gookers
• Leb
• LOL
• F2 and the Dlis
• Select of Feed
• The Rolling Stones
• 101 Dominant
• [student's own name]'s band

Some students chose to go more mathy with their band names:

• P=NP
• Automata
• ∅
• Nonregular
• Current
• The Klein V Group

I like the idea that you'd have to include a pronunciation guide if your band was named just the symbol ∅ (pronounced: "empty set"), which would in turn increase the math literacy of band-introducers everywhere.

By far my favorite --- and quite nerdy --- potential band name was "The Dewey Decibels." I don't know if they play particularly loud music, or music in a very thoroughly specified order, but I want to see their set list. Their album tracks would be titled things like "019" and would be strictly ordered by topic.

(Later in the day, a student not enrolled in the class submitted "Hooks and Mantels" as a potential band name, which I also think is very catchy.)

This post's theme word is disaffect, "to alienate the support or loyalty of someone." The disaffected fans of band "Disaffected Fans" have a lot of trouble disambiguating their messageboards from the still-enthusiastic fans of Disaffected Fans.