Where Did Our ‘The’ Go?

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My kids and I always scratched our heads over "Winnie-ther-Pooh." Is this some kind of British in-joke?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:39 (four years ago)

they neither had one nor seem like they should have

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:41 (four years ago)

I do sir, and more! and more.

― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 1 April 2022 21:45 (four years ago)

“Baby, baby. .. where did our the go?”

― calstars, Friday, 1 April 2022 21:49 (four years ago)

Ben Folds Five

― kinder, Friday, 1 April 2022 21:57 (four years ago)

I've just googled it and I'm still not sure if Red Hot Chili Peppers are called the Red Hot Chili Peppers

― kinder, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:00 (four years ago)

they neither had one nor seem like they should have

They have a lower case one all over their Wikipedia page, unlike Buzzcocks.

― ledge, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:01 (four years ago)

If there can be a newish band called Cults, can I start The Beetle?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:23 (four years ago)

I've just googled it and I'm still not sure if Red Hot Chili Peppers are called the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Good point but have you looked at the disambiguation at the top here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:34 (four years ago)

If there can be a newish band called Cults, can I start The Beetle?

Are you familiar with the Nick Lowe EP Bowi, if not The Rumour album Max, although I guess that is kind of a different thing.

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:36 (four years ago)

Feel like this may work for titles too. For example, the follow-up to The Heroic Trio is Executioners, as if things were so bleak they couldn’t afford or be arsed to put an article in there.

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:47 (four years ago)

I have never heard anyone call Pixies anything other than The Pixies irl

― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 1 April 2022 23:33 (four years ago)

“Baby, baby. .. where did our the go?”

“Baby, I need your the-ing/Got to have all your the-ing”

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 23:51 (four years ago)

I have never heard anyone call Pixies anything other than The Pixies irl

look they even labelled their own t-shirt and compilation Death to the Pixies, I realise it doesn't hold water

― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:03 (four years ago)

You have to read that title as, Death to "the". Pixies.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:07 (four years ago)

In German feminine, Die Pixies.

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:26 (four years ago)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie_und_Dixie

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:35 (four years ago)

minority report

― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:38 (four years ago)

Who put the the in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the the in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the the in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the the in the dip da dip da dip
Who was that man
I'd like to shake his hand
He made my baby fall in love with me (yeah)

― I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 2 April 2022 07:38 (four years ago)

https://i.discogs.com/-5WUhRDCvc6AJj3xupsbl7pthOOd3nKXgkU5hMxxLzo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ5NTMz/My0xMTIzMzYwODcw/LmpwZw.jpeg

― fetter, Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:23 (four years ago)

https://images.eil.com/large_image/ORANGE_JUICE_THE%2BTHIRD%2BALBUM%2B-%2BGATEFOLD%2BSLEEVE-152099.jpg

― fetter, Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:25 (four years ago)

Cocteau Twins

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:39 (four years ago)

Swans

― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 2 April 2022 09:00 (four years ago)

oh don't you "the" me
don't you "the" me no more

ohhhh baby, baby
where did our "the" go? ....

― sarahell, Saturday, 2 April 2022 17:14 (four years ago)

Excellent work all around. Go Team!

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 17:33 (four years ago)

Go ‘the’ Team, surely?

― I'm too sophisti for the pun generator, so sophisti it hurts (breastcrawl), Saturday, 2 April 2022 17:59 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSm6s--CYUQ

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:03 (four years ago)

Nits

― Maresn3st, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:16 (four years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/GoGos-Vacation.jpg

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:16 (four years ago)

bangles is more controversial but i favour it

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:20 (four years ago)

Tribalistas

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:22 (four years ago)

(been saving that one)

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:22 (four years ago)

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-8e25iavqdi/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/500/613/New_York_Dolls_New_York_Dolls_Sticker__61150.1536807224.jpg

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:23 (four years ago)

Grateful Dead

― visiting, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:24 (four years ago)

Lebanon

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:24 (four years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Metalpriestess.JPG

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:25 (four years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Plastic#/media/File:Buggles_-_The_Age_of_Plastic.png

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:27 (four years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Buggles_-_The_Age_of_Plastic.png

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:27 (four years ago)

https://vinyl-records.nl/rock/usa/photo-gallery/eagles/long-run/eagles-long-run-1213.jpg

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:30 (four years ago)

Eagles already mentioned by jaymc via a Steve Martin except upthread but thanks for pictorial info.

I don’t know if there are enough examples to create a thread for the opposite case but Smashing Pumpkins

This thread includes all unstable “thes” so this and similar examples would belong here, although perhaps they should be marked as such to avoid confusion.

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:33 (four years ago)

Aargh, excerpt

― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:33 (four years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Ramones_-_Ramones_cover.jpg

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:34 (four years ago)

(oops sorry re eagles repeat, i was thread-searching to check so missed that)

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:35 (four years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Supersnazz.jpeg

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:39 (four years ago)

I wonder how many bands temporarily drop "The" from their names only for the sake of more elegant graphic design?

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:39 (four years ago)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/ff/35/36ff359cb6ea34bdb44d525823560c90.jpg

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:43 (four years ago)

responding to halfway there but for you: there's definitely a rush of the-less bands to coincide with full-on new wave sleeve design but that doesn't mean it's not their name, design is important

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:47 (four years ago)

http://images.45cat.com/rich-kids-rich-kids-emi-electrola-s.jpg

― mark s, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:53 (four years ago)

But no-one was going to go into a record store: "Who is this band Buggles, I was looking for The Buggles?!?" And "the" comes and goes on covers and posters without most of us even noticing.
And a whole lot of band names sound to my ear a lot more stupid without "the".

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:55 (four years ago)

I mean, why wouldn't bands have one written name and another spoken name?

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 April 2022 18:56 (four years ago)

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