Driving home today the radio played "Crystalised" by The xx and the DJ referred to them as "The Double-x" as in Jimmie "Double X" Foxx. I'd thought it was x-x, though.
I was wondering that myself. They played them on KEXP the other day and I believe the DJ said The x x. I think you have to use either The Exes or The x-x to avoid any confusion.
sigh...things have changed. way back before the days of the innernets we'd sit on the porch and talk about the bugs. box elder bugs came with the drought...crows got wiped out by west nile...that kinda thing.
we had a box elder problem on our porch. crows dropped 'em nearby and they got in through the cracks. i sprayed 'em with some xx (pronounced zcks) and haven't seen 'em since.
sometimes you are fortunate and are in the company of an extraordinary porch companion...you don't even need conversation. you don't even need the porch - the side yard will do...having an older brother caught up in learning his pony-league curveball and an old catcher's mitt is such a partnering.
from post-dinner to the last glimmer of sun's day, my brother would mix curveballs and fastballs in the general direction of my crouched and prayerful 11/12/13-year old direction.
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It was on public radio. I'd be shocked to hear them on commercial radio.
Craig
It's actually Dos Equis - they're named after the beer, but only in lower case since they're not quite as good as beer.
In my mind, I had been calling them the X-X.
Now I'm torn!
They're in town here soon and hopefully they'll do an in studio performance, that should help answer the question.
Craig
Well there is the Queensland beer XXXX that is called Four X, which New Zealanders joke exists because Australians can't spell Beer.
Craig
The Foster's in America is brewed in Cananada last time I checked. Well that and it sucks.
from post-dinner to the last glimmer of sun's day, my brother would mix curveballs and fastballs in the general direction of my crouched and prayerful 11/12/13-year old direction.