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Originally Posted by foofighter15
hahaha, I'd give you a link but the Foo Fighters board doesn't keep old threads.
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Will this one do?
The Foo Fighters' name was derived from a phrase in the Smokey Stover comic strip
1 that ran along the lines of 'Where there's Foo, there's fire', but the actual term
'Foo Fighter' was coined by US Airforce pilots in the Second World War to describe the anomalous balls of light that they saw flying alongside them at high altitudes. As well as naming the band after a form of UFO, Grohl also named the band's second album
The Colour and The Shape after the two most common questions asked of a person claiming to have seen an Unidentified Flying Object (for the record, he also named his record label '
Roswell Records').
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A944282