The band was first christened Duck Tape, then simply Blink. Ultimately, though, the book claims that the number is meaningless. Explanations of “182” include the number of times Al Pacino’s character Tony Montana says “fuck” in Scarface, the number of the ship on which Hoppus’s grandfather served in the Marines, and Hoppus’s ideal weight. This is extremely validating to me personally as someone who maintains belief in a particular theory about the meaning of the band’s name that has long lent a small but satisfying shred of cultural relevance to the lives of teenagers in DeLonge’s hometown of Poway, California, where I grew up.Īllow me to explain: DeLonge and Blink’s co-founder Mark Hoppus have for years responded to questions about the name’s origins with a variety of joke answers, collected self-satisfyingly in a sidebar in the band’s 2001 book Blink-182: Tales From Beneath Your Mom.
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