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Subject: The orgins of Bungie's name

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So a couple weeks ago I dropped a question in DeeJ's mailsack that never got answered. I am not upset because my question did not get answered, I am just really curious. Here's my question: How did Bungie get its name, "Bungie"?

I have done some research on it and yes there are a couple threads such as this one and this one but I never got an answer because well....they didn't know back then either. The second one also says that some of the Bungie employees don't even know. It also doesn't say anything on Bungie's wiki page or Bungiepedia.

Plent of time has passed since then so does anyone have an idea of the answer or at least a clever guess worth throwing around? I'm really interested in finding out.

  • 06.06.2012 11:33 AM PDT

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Nobody knows except the people who work in the deepest cracks of Bungie's headquarters. But we do know it originated from a bad joke (unspecified).

  • 06.06.2012 11:37 AM PDT

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  • 06.06.2012 11:38 AM PDT

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I wonder if by bad joke they meant crude, or just unspeakably awful. facepalm awful.

  • 06.06.2012 11:39 AM PDT

Death or Bungie?

  • 06.06.2012 11:39 AM PDT

Hey I am a big Bungie fan ever since I played Halo 2. I love the series, I love Bungie. I have made a few Bungie logos in my metal shop.

In "O Brave new world" they said it came from a bad joke

  • 06.06.2012 11:41 AM PDT

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I believe Jason Jones once stated that they picked it simply because 'it sounded fun'.

  • 06.06.2012 11:44 AM PDT
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I just saw a green monkey nut shot a small tan lizard(?) in a gunny sack.

It's the punchline of a joke involving 3 explorers in the jungle, a native tribe, and surprise butt exploration.

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  • 06.06.2012 11:45 AM PDT

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Posted by: Carolina
Death or Bungie?
;D

  • 06.06.2012 11:46 AM PDT

GGGGGGggggggggggggGGGG

Bungie.

So fun, you'll come bouncing back!

Who knows, maybe...

  • 06.06.2012 11:46 AM PDT

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Posted by: Adamcunn
Bungie.

So fun, you'll come bouncing back!

Who knows, maybe...


This seems reasonable..

  • 06.06.2012 11:51 AM PDT

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Posted by: xReconAssassinX
Nobody knows except the people who work in the deepest cracks of Bungie's headquarters. But we do know it originated from a bad joke (unspecified).

  • 06.06.2012 12:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Malloy05
everybody listen to mac2po he is 100% right

The joke sort of goes like this video, except replace poontah with Bungie.

Edit: Here is the joke written out for those who don't want to watch the video.


Three guys are walking through a jungle when they are caught and taken prisoner by a savage tribe. The tribe chief says to the first man, "I will give you two choices. Death, or bungie."

The man, not knowing what 'bungie' was, decided to choose that, because anything could be better than death. So the tribe proceeded to sodomize him repeatedly, for over an hour until he could barely walk. He stumbled away in tears as the other two men watched in horror.

The chief asks the second man, "Death, or bungie?" The man was horrified by what he had seen, but still would rather not die. He chose bungie, and the tribe proceeded to sodomize him even more viciously than the first man, for hours and hours, leaving him permanently crippled. He dragged himself away, sobbing.

The chief asked the last man, "Death or bungie?" The man decided that anything could be better than this 'bungie', even death. "I choose death!" the man exclaimed, bravely. The chief smiled. "Very well. Death.. by bungie!"



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  • 06.06.2012 12:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Carolina
Death or Bungie?
POONTAH

  • 06.06.2012 12:27 PM PDT

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  • 06.06.2012 12:29 PM PDT
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  • 06.06.2012 11:47 PM PDT

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  • 06.07.2012 12:17 AM PDT

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  • 06.07.2012 12:22 AM PDT

Good question, we may never know.

  • 06.07.2012 1:20 AM PDT

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