Results: Because We Needed to Come up With a Better Name
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Here is a list of things that had another name other than what you know it by. Check off the ones that you might already know:
Hannah Montana was originally named "Alexis Texas."
9%
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134 votes
Candy corn was originally called "Chicken Feed."
8%
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127 votes
The Powerpuff Girls were originally called the "Whoopass Girls."
4%
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66 votes
John Steinback's Of Mice and Men was originally called Something That Happened.
5%
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71 votes
SpongeBob was originally called "Spongeboy." They couldn't use that name because it was copyrighted by a mop company.
6%
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99 votes
"Brown Eyed Girl" was originally called "Brown Skinned Girl." Van Morrison said the original title was a "mistake." He told the Belfast Telegraph: "That was just a mistake. It was a kind of Jamaican song... Calypso. It just slipped my mind. I changed the title."
7%
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111 votes
Q-Tips were originally called "baby gays." The "q" was added to mean quality.
4%
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69 votes
Pinecones were originally called "pine apples." When explorers discovered pineapples in the Americas they called them "pineapples" because they looked like pine cones, and at the time "apple" was used to describe a variety of fruits.
7%
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105 votes
Coldplay was originally named "Starfish."
3%
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44 votes
Maroon 5 was originally named "Kara's Flowers."
3%
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45 votes
Snapchat was originally called "Pictaboo."
3%
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52 votes
Not Applicable
69%
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1062 votes
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Here is the next set:
Google was originally called "BackRub."
3%
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52 votes
The Spice Girls were at first called "Touch." Originally, there was also another member, named Michelle.
4%
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59 votes
Mickey Mouse was originally "Mortimer." Walt Disney's wife hated the name, so he changed it.
23%
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363 votes
Cotton candy was originally called "fairy floss." It made its US debut in St. Louis at the world's fair in1904. It started being referred to as "cotton candy" in the 1920s.
14%
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215 votes
Hermione Granger's name was supposed to be "Hermione Puckle."
3%
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45 votes
The White House was at one time called the "President's Palace."
11%
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168 votes
Softball was originally called "kitten ball."
3%
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45 votes
The movie Pretty Woman was at first titled 3000.
2%
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26 votes
Yahoo was originally called "Jerry's guide to the world wide web." It was basically just a collection of this guy named Jerry's favorite links and golf scores.
4%
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56 votes
Clifford's name was originally "Tiny."
3%
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39 votes
Pepsi was originally called "Brad's Drink" after Caleb Bradham started selling it in his drugstore. It was renamed "Pepsi-Cola" after the word "dyspepsia," because Bradham claimed it was a healthy drink. Dyspepsia means indigestion.
5%
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73 votes
Not Applicable
58%
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890 votes
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And the last set:
Buzz Lightyear was originally named "Lunar Larry."
4%
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69 votes
Best Buy was originally named "Sound of Music."
3%
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46 votes
Limp Bizkit was at one time called "Blood Fart."
4%
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59 votes
An apron was originally called a "napron." By the 17th century, the name changed to "apron" because people kept mishearing it.
4%
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69 votes
Cheerios were originally called Cheerioats.
9%
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140 votes
Bank of America was originally called "Bank of Italy." The Bank of Italy was created by A.P. Giannini for the Italian working class in the North Beach district of San Francisco. Eventually, after it expanded, it was renamed Bank of America.
7%
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107 votes
Creed's original name was "Naked Toddler."
2%
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37 votes
The Hawaiian Islands were originally called the "Sandwich Islands." Explorer James Cook named them after the Earl of Sandwich.
15%
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232 votes
Eggo waffles were originally called "Froffles" — a combination of "frozen" and "waffles." The name was changed after customers started calling them "Eggos" because of their egg flavor.
3%
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50 votes
Ralph Lauren's birth name was Ralph Lifshitz. He changed it when he was a teenager because it had the word "shit" in it.
5%
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80 votes
Rudolph was almost named Reginald.
6%
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96 votes
Not Applicable
63%
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980 votes
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