* Constantinople's change of name was the theme for a song made famous by The Four Lads and later covered by They Might Be Giants and many others entitled " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".

* 1959 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and musician ( They Might Be Giants )

* The They Might Be Giants song " Where Your Eyes Don't Go " on their second album, Lincoln, featured the lines " You're free to come and go / Or talk like Kurtis Blow.

* Lincoln ( album ), a 1988 album by They Might Be Giants

* 1960 – John Flansburgh, American musician and songwriter ( They Might Be Giants and Mono Puff )

As session musician, he recorded with Suzanne Vega, Lauryn Hill, Zack de la Rocha, Young Ryda, Ed Rush and Optical, Firewater, They Might Be Giants and Greg Kurstin.

* Severe Tire Damage ( album ), a 1998 album by the band They Might Be Giants

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act.

From 1984-1987, They Might Be Giants were the house-band at Darinka, a Lower East Side performance club.

The review caught the attention of Bar / None Records, who signed They Might Be Giants to a recording deal.

Longtime listeners to Dial-A-Song have counted at least 500 distinct songs and variations recorded by They Might Be Giants, making them one of the most prolific rock bands in history in terms of published material.

This was replaced in August 2006 however, with a page promoting the They Might Be Giants podcasts.

In 1989, They Might Be Giants signed with Elektra Records, and released their third album Flood the following year.

In 1990, Throttle magazine interviewed They Might Be Giants and clarified the meaning of the song " Ana Ng ": John Flansburgh said, " Ng is a Vietnamese name.

In early 1992, They Might Be Giants released Apollo 18.

In 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major label recording artist to release an entire album exclusively in mp3 format.

Labeled They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeney's, the disk appears in issue No. 6 of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.

They Might Be Giants performing at Bar None, in Brooklyn, NY

They Might Be Giants were in a letter for Joe and Blue.

They Might Be Giants perform a free show at Amoeba Music in Hollywood, CA on March 25, 2005

* That They All May Be One

They began their post-season play by shutting out the Giants in New York 23 – 0.

They were defeated again by the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.

They finally moved into their own dedicated state-of-the-art stadium in 1976, when they moved into Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

They are also known as " the White Elephants " or simply " the Elephants ", in reference to then New York Giants ' manager John McGraw's calling the team a " white elephant ".

They had a young star in the likes of Jack Clark, along with veteran first baseman Willie McCovey, second baseman Bill Madlock ( whom the Giants had acquired from the Chicago Cubs ,) shortstops Johnnie LeMaster and Roger Metzger, and third baseman Darrell Evans.

They and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are the only MLB California teams to originate in California ; the Dodgers and Giants are originally from New York, and the Athletics are originally from Philadelphia.

They sometimes pay more attention to their rights than to their own internal problems of government.

They applauded every number, not only at its conclusion but also at the first statement of the theme -- sometimes at the first chord.

`` They eat chickens sometimes '', the boy said.

They were the top land predators, sometimes reaching several meters in length, preying on the large insects of the period and many types of fish in the water.

They are sometimes preserved within the voids of other organisms, for instance within empty hyolith conchs, within sponges, worm tubes and under the carapaces of bivalved arthropods, presumably in order to hide from predators or strong storm currents ; or maybe whilst scavenging for food.

They are herbs with corms and leaves which are sometimes stalked ( petiolate ) with wide blades.

( They had no refectory, but ate their common meal, of bread and water only, when the day's labour was over, reclining on strewn grass, sometimes out of doors.

They were formerly sometimes regarded as the first-hand narrative on which Ambroise based his work, but that can no longer be maintained.

They did not dawdle at the hour of decision but attacked quickly, using a massive series of short, rapid, vicious charges against the length of the whole Roman line, with charging units sometimes withdrawing to the forest to regroup while others took their place.

They sometimes included symbolic and religious meanings.

They visited various parts of Ethiopia, including the then little-known districts of Ennarea and Kaffa, sometimes together and sometimes separately.

They can also be used to build thick layers of paint: gel and molding paste media are sometimes used to create paintings with relief features that are literally sculptural.

They send these signals by means of an axon, which is a thin protoplasmic fiber that extends from the cell body and projects, usually with numerous branches, to other areas, sometimes nearby, sometimes in distant parts of the brain or body.

They sometimes employ a large parabolic array of mirrors ( some facilities are several stories high ) to focus light to a high intensity.

They were sometimes regarded as the work of Danes or Picts.

They can sometimes be effective in the short-term treatment of psychiatric emergencies such as acute psychosis as in schizophrenia or mania, bringing about rapid tranquillization and sedation until the effects of lithium or neuroleptics ( antipsychotics ) take effect.

They can remain underwater for long periods of time, sometimes an hour or more, but most dives are usually short.

They grow to a size of only 13 to 28 cm, with a tail that is very long, sometimes up to one and a half times as long as the body.

They are commonly used as filler to depict background activities in an atmosphere like a bar or rec room, but sometimes the drama revolves around the play of the game.

They were sometimes referred to as " rush leeks " ( from the Greek schoinos meaning rush and prason meaning leek ).

They are also sometimes denigrated by the general public as being overpaid and publicly overrated compared to a normal worker such as a doctor, police officer or a teacher.

They are also sometimes called " Auxons ", from the Greek word auxein which means " to grow ", or " von Neumann machines " after John von Neumann, who first rigorously studied the idea.

They ( women ) are sometimes unable to stand the hard work of it day in and day out.