That's awesome.

It reminded me of another chance Boingo reference I heard on the radio like
last month or so.

Strangely enough, it was not a music station. It was on a morning talk radio
show, hosted by a guy named Bill Handel, on KFI 640 AM in Los Angeles. It is
mostly a news show, but it is very irreverent and very politically
incorrect; he makes fun of everyone and anything. Anyway, one of his
co-hosts or whatever was reporting a story about someone who was a member of
an organization-- I think it was some fringe religious group or something...
or at least one with a name that could sound rather wacky to Western ears.)
The co-host mentioned the name of the group, and Bill laughed, "Yeah- The
Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo!"

-Carl

(And I thought this Yahoo group had completely died!)

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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 02:08:33 -0000
> From: smashcritical
> Subject: Oingo Boingo in a Videogame
>
> Ok not entirely true but in the beta for blizzard's World of
> warcraft there are a number of non player characters that have their
> names taken from somewhere else. Outside of the undead starting area
> there is a group of undead with the following names. Daniel Ulfman,
> Stephon Bartok, Samual Phipps, and Karrel Grayves.
>
> I have not confirmed it but I am sure credit can be given to a
> buddy of mine who is a VP at Blizzard. In High School it was the one
> band that all my freinds bought all the tapes and records and made
> sure we attenended every show we could.
>
> I hope the names stay in after the game is released, I think it
> would be really cool having a long lasting tribute to the group with
> in a videogame.
>
> World of warcraft is a Maasively Multiplayer Online Role Playing
> Game that is being developed by Blizzard and should be released to
> the general public late this year or early next (who am a kidding,
> Blizzard will wait until the game is as solid as possible before it
> sees store shelves).
>
> Chuck