Their original name was just blink but an irish band with the same name threatened them with a lawsuit
Mark Hoppus' girlfirend was angry at him for spending so much time with the band and made him choose between hew or the band, so he left the band fo awhile until they were doing a demo tape so he left her to join back
The original trio went by the names ducktape and figure 8 before finally settling on blink
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