I feel bad for the band !!! (by the way - don't follow that link. It caused merry hell with my browser). For a bunch of reasons. the first is that their name is so close to being awesome, but they failed miserably. Evidentally, you are supposed to pronounce "!!!" as "chk-chk-chk" or something. But "!" is how the concept of factorial is represented in math.

I.e.: 5! = 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 120

And when mathematicians speak about that symbol, they read it as the word "bang" (and never, ever, as "bang!" since that would cause a syntactic recursion from which we could never escape).

So when talking about the band !!!, instead of saying "chk-chk-chk", we could have been saying "bang bang bang," which is such a super name for a band. But no.

The other problem is that they are at the very top of my artist listing on my iPod, and so all the times I accidentally play all of an artist, or my iPod starts playing in my pocket when I forget to turn on the Hold button, they are the first band to start playing. Happens all the time, and it always annoys me. So now I associate !!! with being annoying, and as such I never want to listen to them. It's a bummer, man.