How did they come up with the name....?
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Named after the religious figure Saint Valentine.
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That's some weird name if it's a name....
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Because they're names.
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Definitely eh, eh.\nKnow how they came up with the name Canada?\nThey started with a C, eh...then an N, eh... :)
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because it's the title they chose for that song!!
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I dont think they give it a name
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Just in case you didn't catch it when 6 people said the same thing before, the answer to your question is:\n\nthe origin
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The origin of the Clippers' name is very obscure, but I know how it came about.  A group of male hairdressers from SF joined a local BB league.  They wanted a name that sounded strong and intimidating but still reflected their roots in hair styling - hence Clippers.  Unfortunately they never won a game and were forced to move to LA.  They also had to give up the pink and yellow jerseys.\n\nOK seriously, they're named after a type of sailing boat.  The clipper is a fast and nimble boat, usually used by merchants.  The LA Clippers were formally the SD Clippers.  Since SD was right on the ocean and was (at the time) the biggest port in CA, it only made since to name them after a familiar object.  Besides, how could you name a BB team the San Diego Missions or the SD Zoologists.
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Sorry, I just don't know, but had to answer because I just love the name.  Isn't this a beautiful name?  Say it.  It sounds really nice.
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Who? (I was looking at your previous questions . . . where do you come up with these people?!)
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It is neither, I seriously think you made it up. Just searched the web through curiosity alone and found nothing but alot of company or school names and those were accronyms. It could mean "What Ever Mate Shushhhhhhhhh"
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Did you mean surname Hucks? I found one website that gives a good description of the origin, but I was unable to copy/paste it. The link is below :-)
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dan's close on what he has but he's a little off, probably because wikipedia is not a reliable source to get your information from...when they were showing the show to test groups of kids, they asked on what the kids wanted the name to be and sesame street came forward from that...though nobody liked the name nobody could come up with anything better so it stuck
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I wonder that too, it's weird.  I suppose it's natural to come up with names for things you see as language develops- then everyone in your region calls it the same thing. (Hence the different dialects & languages.)  Then I wonder who got to name them- the leader of a group of people?  The first to talk about it?  Very interesting.  \n\nSome words make sense, like snake or wolf because that is how the animal sounds. \n\nI recommend calling things by totally different names that make sense to you, then insist that other people are crazy.  (Reminds me of an old Twilight Zone episode where all the words for everything slowly changed for a man.  It ended with him paging through a children's word book in confusion, with things like the word "dinosaur" pictured with a ball.)
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Wikipedia gives a few possibilities about where the name came from.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_horse
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Can you give us any information?  Where did you see the name?