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[JESS/NINA]
Markku Lappalainen's Middle Name
"Lappalainen is the Finland-born bass player in the Agoura Hills, California, rock quartet that dared to take on the Hoobastank name. With their first single, "Crawling in the Dark," climbing into the Top 20 of Billboard's Modern Rock Singles chart, they're hardly damaging it — not that the name is sacred to Lappalainen's bandmates."
[JACKIE]
German/Dutch/some Bavarian language for "Hopscotch"
The day they were trying to pick their name, they went outside and played hop-scotch... and some man kept yelling "Hoobustank! Hoobustank!" at them as he pointed to their hop-scotch grid...
[JESS/NINA]
A Shoe Fetish
[Doug Robb on alloy.com] "Basically, hoobastank is a slang term for somebody with a shoe fetish. Dan and I love shoes, OK? We have too many shoes. I go on tour with three pairs and come back with 15."
[JACKIE]
A Craving
When you can't get your hands on one: "you know.. when you really want a cool ranch dorito.. and theres just no way to get one.. thats hoobastank" - also the fake cheese on the doritos.
[RAS]
One False Step
When an ice skater is trying to perform a triple lutz and lands on her butt.
[JESS/NINA]
Nature's Creation
A rare butterfly indigenous to Argentina.
[JESS/NINA]
A Childhood First Word
when they were lil one of them let one and they said hoobastank
[JESS/NINA]
An Acronym
Homeless Orthadox Ostriches Banning Stringy Tangerines And Nasty Kangaroos
[RAS]
Look Before You Step
When you accidentally step in gum and you're trying to scrape it off but dammit it won't come off and when you walk the sole of your shoe keeps sticking to the pavement.
[JACKIE]
A Euphemism
instead of cussing like I do... I should blurt Hoobastank. We can start a revolution in language here.
[Sarah/rockin_blonde]
A rare mammal
One of those animals in Australia with a funny name. The dangerous yet graceful Hoobastank.
[VINCE]
Deities
Hoobastank is a Greek god that hardly ever gets any mention. He came to people in the form of a giant purple marshmallow
[JESS/NINA]
Candy-coated goodness?
Hoobastank is the name of the first blue gummi bear, and he decided there will be no others like him, because they would never match up to him
[HELENE/Imasilly1]
Knitting project
Hoobastanks are what old ladies called quilts back in the "olden days"
[HELENE/Imasilly1]
A rare reptile
They're an extinct form of turtles that had blue shells
[HELENE/Imasilly1]
The new Hanes
Hoobastank is a brand of underwear
[VINCE]
Toys
German for Hula-hoop!
[VINCE]
Ancient Civilization
- Hoobastank was an ancient empire that was allied with the Blu Gummi Bear empire, but the other gummi bear empires conquered them
- Just like the Hoobastank of the past had Gummi Bears as their enemies, so shall we have one common threat.....teenyboppers!
- JESS's great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great uncle was the general in the Hoobastank army
- But beware power-mongering officials at the top of the Hoob Empire, corrupting a good thing....forcing some to...
- Stage a coup with the hoobastank freedom fighting team to oust the evil officials and start the People's Democratic Union of Hoobastank.
[Sarah/rockin_blonde]
Tribes
Hoob was the name of an ancient tribal king whose tribe was feeling pressure of growing enemy tribes... so in order to solidify his power base, King Hoob decided to unite his tribe with the second most powerful tribe by marrying the daughter of that tribe, named Astank. so to create one united power base, they melded their names and created tribe HOOBASTANK. there ya go.
[LINDA/christinedechagny]
Stuffed animals
"It's a fuzzy animal, that's what it is. You never heard of a HOOBASTANK? You can win them in the little fifty cent things For kids, they're little fuzzy things kinda like Pok-e-mon Is that enough for you?"
[HELENE/Imasilly1]
Superhero!
You see, back in the day before Superman and Spider man, there was a superhero like no other. His name was "The incredible Hooba Booba" and he had this side kick "stank" yaknow-cuz she stank. I believe it was Chris who had the first, and only copy of this comic book, and they decided to name the band after his favorite heroes. Instead of naming the band "HoobaBooba" they dropped the "booba" and added the "stank" because even though she stank- Dan and Doug thought she was hot..
[JACKIE]
All the sill pill childhood memories that you have... of when you pinned a tail on your ass and hung in your closet pretending you were a monkey, or when you would pretend you were Ariel, splashing up from the ocean on the rock in your neighbor's yard, or when you told your dad to call you Mary when he wanted help cooking.
[Sarah/rockin_blonde]
An ancient indian chief who used a sword in the shape of an infinity symbol to fight off demon spirits
[JESS/NINA]
The round flat thing on the top of a nail
[LINDA/christinedechagny]
Styrofoam peanuts, used for packing, that are shaped like the infinity sign (as explained by Dan Estrin himself.)
[JACKIE]
One of the 60s Batman phrases that Robin says to Batman: "Holy Hoobastank, Batman!" Also: "pow! kablooey! hoobastank! bam!" in fight scenes.
[LINDA/christinedechagny]
The psychic connection people appear to have when spending way too much time together on message boards.
[Andy/Hoobascience]
A good household appliance, comparable to a blender or cheese grater
[Andy/Hoobascience]
Jive for "Whose Butt Stinks?"
- I think that hoobastank came up with there name one night when they were drunk. someone farted and they yelled out "who butt stank?" makes sense to me.
- The band was originally called Who Farted, then who smelt it dealt it, then something else, then something like Who Made the Stank, and it evolved into Hoobastank.
An illness...
Everytime u go to the doctor when u have a cold they say u have the flu or just a cold. well the doctors are really hiding that the name for the common cold which everyone gets is hoobastank. but who really want to call an illness hoobastank when u can have something like "the flu". doctors felt that everyone would be able to say "you have the flu" than to say "you have the hoobastank"
A Nervous Feeling...
The anxiousness a guy feels when he goes in for a physical and a doctor feels his "package"...
A Pun
isn't it a play off of scubastank? Hoobastank stems from the words "scuba tank."
The pause between the actual music on a CD and the good fun secret stuff...
Special word
Hoobastank is the Bolognian word for "brother"
Translates into:
Hoobastank translates into "boy bands and all teenyboppers who promote them should be punished and dealt with appropriately, aka dunked in red jello, sat out in the snow butt naked, and sit there until the wild animals lick them clean, and then after that's all finished, cap 'em"
The Hoobastank Glossary
[RAS will do the Glossary Page(s)]
Hoobastink: Smelly Hoobastank
Hoobastake: Used to kill vampires
Scoobastake: Used to kill vampires underwater
Hoobasteak: The meat of a hoobacow
Hoobasnake:Some a snake named hooba?
Hoobalake: Home of the Loch Ness Hooba
Hoobafake: Hoobastank cover bands
Hoobashake: Comes in vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate
Hoobabooba: Bubble gum
Hooboostoo: A ghost which makes you shake your boobs
Hooba-balooba: The rock festival only for bands performing covers of hoobastank songs (wouldn*t that be amazing? Also known as "Hoobstock"
Hoobascoop: Replacing pooper scoopers everywhere
Hoobaspanking! (Use your imagination)
Hoobaloops: Fruity flavored cereal (Toucan Dan [Estrin] is the logo)
Hoobacandle... smells like Hoobastank
Hoobascandal! For when they're busted for coke possession while driving drunk with underage teen hookers who are also working illegally in kathie lee gifford's sweatshops
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