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Old 05-25-2008, 10:13 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by Dion View Post
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The Foo Fighters' name was derived from a phrase in the Smokey Stover comic strip1 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
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