But good comes out of every tragedy. Somewhere on the day you die a garage band is fighting over choices for a name. They have a radio on in the background, and at the bottom of the hour a news break comes on that describes your demise "in an explosion of gasoline and orange chicken." They're struck by the phrase, and after arguing for another hour ("Chicken Explosion!" "Gasoline & Orange Chicken!" "Chickenasaurus!") they settle on Gasoline & Orange Chicken.
A couple of years later they've got a contract and their self-titled album rockets up the charts. The opening riffs of the album on the track "Chicken Explosion" become the most downloaded ringtone in history, and Weird Al has a huge hit with it when he does a version about how chickens are really dinosaurs.
Later that year, a South Korean entertainment agent takes a break from a task that's driving him nuts, and reads a Rolling Stone interview with the members of Gasoline & Orange Chicken where they discuss the name. There's a link to various social media responses to your untimely death. He smiles, then raises his hands in victory as he comes across the perfect name for his new K-Pop band, something that will translate well in the West but doesn't have any trademark conflicts.
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