The Official *bitter defeat* Name that DJ Team Contest: The First Day—Stakes Is High!

First off, Haloscan has apparently disappeared from the face of the Earth, so *bitter defeat* is now using Blogger's improved comment feature. Comments are now up and running.

The pot, ladies and gentlemen, has been sweetened! Bacardi has added another item to our Grand Prize: in addition to Ratt's Out of the Cellar LP, the winner will also receive a 12" copy of Irene Cara's "Flashdance (What a Feelin')."

After less than 24 hours, the management has received a flood of entries in the Name that DJ Team Contest. Apparently many of you got hung up on the black and white thing, and barely managed to stop short of suggesting something as stupid as Team Oreo. Actually, some of the suggestions along these lines were pretty good. Lane came up with The White Darknesses, which is great, if a tad too long. Bi-colored food references abounded, as in Siobhann's Kaffe and Skim and The Swirl, and Peter's Francophillic Crème Caramel and Blanc et Noir. And two of Brian's suggestions—Chocodile and Twinkie and Choco-Taco—kept the humorous mass-market dessert theme alive. Others were less...um, subtle. Especially when one of us got the shaft. (I'm thinking specifically of Cracker and Tubbs and Jason and The Black Fellow.)

Food and drink in general were popular, because we were named after a drink before and most of you are criminally narrow-minded. Witness Bangers and Mash (Lane), Gin & Tonic (A.J.), and several others.

Some were just plain funny (if not downright bizarre): A.J. came up with both the surest way to increase attendance at our gigs (Hot Tits and Big Dicks) and the surest way to get us gigs in Chelsea (Priest and Altar Boy)—imagine the fight over who has to be Altar Boy! Other blips on the hilario-meter included Michael Jackson Slept Here (Paddy O'Furniture), Captain and FoReal (Siobhann), and Sit and Let Spin (Jeremy) (which I would shorten to just Sit & Spin if it weren't so goddamn gay).

Finally, there are the ones I actually like. Brian is head and shoulders above the rest so far, with three promising suggestions: Research & Development, Tomax & Xamot, and my personal favorite, The Toxic Twins. Now apparently The Toxic Twins is also an Aerosmith cover band somewhere, but I'm not too worried about any conflict. And Bacardi himself has come up with two I like: The Secret Squares and The High Scores. He doesn't care for the latter, but I think it's genius. It does sound like a Bay Area garage band (The Hi-Fives), but I still like it.

So that's where we stand thus far. On the whole, your entries have been infantile, peurile, and vile... KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!