Some people I knew at WPI had a cat named Sheedy, which was short for She Doesn't Have One Yet, We'll Think of One Later.

(And another one who got into some paint and made a mess of the living room carpet, and so earned the name Picasso, short for He's No Fucking Picasso.)

Amazingly, neither of those is my favorite cat name from those days. That honor goes to my Swedish friend Heléne's cat Snabblagad, whose name was Swedish for "easy to cook". This is immortalized in UF as the name of the popular dish "snabs and belgad" (which contains no cat).

Anyway, running gag aside, we'll find out the JV's band's name next time, and no, it isn't The Junior Varsity.

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I was always curious about what that dish was intended to be...

A snab is a Salusian root vegetable, similar to a white potato. Belgad is the meat of a Corellian herd animal of the same name, and is more or less interchangeable with beef (as indeed it must be in many 25th-century implementations of older Earth recipes, since belgad are much more commonly raised around the galaxy than Earth cattle).

Snabs and belgad takes many forms; the most common are something not too dissimilar to pot roast and a slightly more elaborate version that is basically cottage pie.

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Alternatively, 'We Are Not Very Good'

A popular recreation in my circle at WPI in the early '90s was to go through the concerts-and-shows sections of local indie/alternative papers, marveling at the band names. The one that remains most prominent in my memory was called "I've Been Shot", but there was another one called "Shitty Shitty Band Band".

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Back about the same period, I briefly ran a TfOS game online, in which one of the PCs was a member of "Severe Tire Damage". The band logo, as seen on T-shirts etc, was a reproduction of the warning sign(s) that (used to?) accompany one-way spike gates - "Do Not Back Up, SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE".

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"No, Rob Crocker is Confused."

Peter Eng
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I'm pretty sure it's a play on the homophones (that is to say, it's both, but there's no really good way of depicting that symbolically); "our work is never over" turns up by itself several times.

--G.
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-dbrandon