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It's no secret that plenty of modern day rock bands have names with sexual connotations, but inventing similar explanations for the names of older bands has become a favorite pastime. So it is with the English art rock band 10cc, who allegedly chose their name as a sly joke indicating that they were just a little bit better than the average guy (whose ejaculation supposedly contains 9cc of semen): Not so, says Jonathan King, who signed the group to UK Records and came up with their name: Band member Eric Stewart said essentially the same thing in a 1995 BBC interview: The dream story was also reported in Rolling Stone in 1973, just one year after the band took their name: Interestingly, that same Rolling Stone included the following numerical tidbit frequently cited as a basis of the rumor: If the name had been deliberately chosen for the reasons cited, it would have been a misnomer: The average male ejaculation actually contains only about 3-4 cc of semen.
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