What were Simple Minds originally called?
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Johnny & The Self Abusers..back in '77.
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Groupthink - when normally reasonable people begin to make irrational decisions as a group, characterised by uncritical acceptance of some extreme point of view.\n\nThink Heaven's Gate or Jonestown.
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This  \npuzzler may indeed "KILL YOUR BRAIN!" and "make you so MAD!" -- it certainly has left plenty of victims racking their brains and scratching their heads in decades past. If you don't already know the answer to this one, let us help you preserve your sanity and whatever gray matter you may have left by telling you . . . there is no answer. Other than 'hungry' and 'angry,' there is no English word ending with the letters 'gry' which the average native speaker of English would recognize, much less "use every day" (and certainly none which a teller of this riddle could claim to have "already given you"). \n\nAll other words ending in 'gry' which one might find in even the most comprehensive English dictionary are either archaic terms or obsolete variant spellings, such as: \n\n\naggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa. \n\nbegry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty). \n\nconyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren'). \n\ngry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding." \n\nhigry-pigry: a corruption (along with 'hickery-pickery' and 'hicra picra') of the Greek 'hiera picra' (approximately 'sacred bitters'), a term for many medicines in the Greek pharmacopoeia, particularly a purgative drug composed of aloes and canella bark. \n\niggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!" \n\nmeagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.' \n\nmenagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.' \n\nnangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.' \n\npodagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.' \n\npuggry: a 19th-century alternate spelling of 'puggaree' or 'puggree,' derived from the Hindi 'pagri,' a word for a light turban or head covering worn in India. \n\nskugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.' \nSo, what's the point to this puzzler if it has no answer? Some people maintain that is the point: the question was deliberately conceived as an irritating brain-teaser with no correct answer. The roundabout phrasing of the question suggests otherwise, however -- more likely it was designed as a trick question rather than a trivia question, perhaps one whose wording has been corrupted over time or whose gimmick was only apparent when the question was delivered orally. \n\nThe most common guess is that this riddle is indeed a trick question, but the point of the trick has been lost through the rearrangement of the riddle's wording as it has been passed along through the years. Consider an alternate version of this puzzler: \n\nThink of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is. \nThis version supports the theory that the first two sentences are red herrings; the catch is that the teller is literally asking you to identify the third word of the phrase "the English language" -- there are only three words in the phrase "the English language," the third word ("language") describes something that one uses every day, and "language" is indeed a word which the teller has "already told you." This explanation al
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BEATLES , BUT CANT REMEMBER ITS NAME
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Not to beat a dead horse, but it's Edward Witten.  The reason why though is because he was able to unify the several flavors of string theory into, one mathematically stable, unifying theory.  It suggests some pretty "out there" ideas, and its called M Theory.\n\nAlso, I noticed that somebody suggested that it took several scientists to match the power of Einstein's intellect.  However, Einstein did very little to establish laws for the very small, which was governed by Quantum Mechanics, a theory that he very much disliked.  Yet Quantum Mechanics has accurately described the very small for years over years.  So I wouldn't call Einstein irreplaceable.
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not the supremes.... Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, they were over shadowed by the supremes, probably why people get them confussed!!
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Oh, what a question.. A question that has no immediate answer. First.. what is the mind: Mind refers to the collective aspects of human intellect and consciousness that originate in the brain and which are manifest in some combination of thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination.\n\nT H U S: If the mind is indeed a thing S E P A R A T E THING from or higher than the functioning of the brain, then presumably it will not be possible for any machine, no matter how sophisticated, to duplicate it. If on the other hand the mind is no more than the aggregated functions of the brain, then it will be possible, at least in theory, to create a machine with a mind\n\nIn essence. this has been a question from the times of Aristotle to date... We still do not know
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It started in the UK by Simon Fuller. It was called Pop Idol\nread more here..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Idol
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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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It was a common name when they were born!
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its called "THEM". its a classic.\n\nthere was something similar during the seventies in color called "food of the gods" by HG Wells
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There is a madsci article about this question at: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb98/888691550.Ph.r.html\n\nHope that helps...the site discusses the hypothesized origins...
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the first computer was made by an english man called charles babbage in the 1800s. it was like a calculater and was the size of a house. \nt
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i think they probably "existed" before the 2000s. the name was just not as popular.
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer had a  mellow song that started like that. I believe it was on their Trilogy album.\n\nI'd go into more detail, but this question reminds me of my cassette tape player in my first car, and I feel that I'm growing very old.
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John Nash. He's the subject of the book and movie, "A Beautiful Mind." Won Nobel Prize in Economics for the Nash Equilibrium.\n\nMartin Gardner. Regular contributor to "Scientific American."\n\nUnfortunately a lot of the math studied by most people predates the US, or was formed when the US was in its early days. \n\nI'm sure there are lots of American Mathematicians of note, but most of there work is way beyond most people's understanding or knowledge.\n\nIf you could Computer Science work withing mathematics, then there are more names to add, such as Knuth, Kleene and Karp (no association to the KKK.)
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You need to give more information. Do you remember anything else? Those are common names. Try to add more info and I'll try to help.