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Location: North Carolina | Special Ed and the Short Bus plays in my area.
There have been some grumblings about their name and suggestions that they change it, but I hope they don't. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You gotta love that name! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Great name, and love that kind of music.
I suppose if they give in to politcal correctness they could be
Advance Placement Ed and the busettes. The busettes may think this is too girly. I say stick with it. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I must be thick, or foreign - I don't get it. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Muzza--
"Special Ed" is (or maybe, used to be--I've been out of school a long time now and it's probably been re-named) short for "special education," the program our schools offer for mentally- and physically-handicapped children. The "short bus" is a shorter version of the long, yellow school bus most American kids schlepp off to school in, and that's the bus that's usually equipped for wheel-chair access. Hence the discontentment over the band's name...
(I got a good chuckle out of it, though, so I rather hope they don't change it; but maybe I'd feel differently if someone in my family had actually needed to ride in one...)
--Karen |
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | "Special Ed" is also a puppet in the show Crank Yankers also. Just another play on the meaning but it is a great name for his charicter. I actually have a clip on my cell phone for when I get a voice mail. It says (in his "special ed" voice.. "I got mail... YEAH! I GOT MAIL!!!
(It's funnier to hear than to read...) |
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Great Name for a Bluegrass Band