Why did we decide to call ourselves The Rusty Pipes? Well, we wanted a name that had some relevence to both music and our fine institution of higher learning, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. For those of you who do not know, our fine institute's fine former president was President R. Byron Pipes. He and his wife, Ruth Ellen Pipes, were big supporters of the arts here at Rensselaer, and we chose our name in recognition of this.

Thinking of starting your own a cappella group? Or maybe you just want to be amused. Either way, take a look at the list of names we considered for this group:

Absolute Zero
The Accelerandos
Alphabet Soup
Ambiance
Animal House

The Beastie People
Better Than Elda's
Biorhythms
The Breakfast Club

The Cadavers
Canned Yams
The Chile Con Carnes

The Dirty Dozen
The Drip 'n Poofs

The EKGs
Email

Fiddler on Your Roof
5-Alarm Chile
The Flying Biegeleisens
Freaks and Folks
The Fugitives

The Hot Damns

I Love NY Pizza, The Group
The Impartial Friends

Jam Session
The Jub-Jub Birds
The Kamikazes
The Key-tones

The Looney Tunes
The Lucky Charms

Magic Beans
The Mighty Mighty Troylets
The Momeraths
Musical Fruit
Musical Interludes
Musical Pursuit

Parsley
The Patroons
Pi Pipers
The Pipettes

The Rednecks
The Renssel-ears
The Rensselyrics II
Rifles and Tulips

Sam's Club
The Scooby Snacks
Secret Service
The Silly Rabbits
The Slimy Toads
The Slithy Toves
The Slutty Ho-bags
The Sofas
The Sforzandos

The Tech-ilahs
The 3 Tenors (and then some)
The Troylets

You can imagine we were closer to choosing some over others. (Of course, you may not know which ones were closer!) Why don't you send us some mail and let us know if you think we made the right choice, if we blew it, or if you have a better suggestion. If your name is worthy or at least on the same level as these, we may have to set up an honorable mention section. Hope to hear from you soon!