Every time one was suggested three of the members would like it and one "would give it the throw up look." It took in international crisis to solve the problem.
"War just broke out with Iraq when we were all in the Science Center," Snow and someone said, 'Oh, it's only a press conference.
"We all looked at each other and nobody disagreed, so we went with it.
SPANKING VENUS
Lend singer Jessica D. Thompson '93 says she can't take all the credit for this name.
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The guys in the band wanted it, and I couldn't contest it," she says.
Commenting of the similarity of the name to Hot Spanky Porpoise, Thompson says, "We were not aware of the other name. But no one wanted to chance it."