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Examples

  • Pyros, just because you believe a thing does not make it true.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • He was listening to “100 Ways” by Porno for Pyros on his iPod, when it happened.

    A Savior Joe Sullivan 2011

  • Band names, meanwhile, have out-dada'd dada: Porno for Pyros isn't just a band name that doesn't mean anything; it's a sendup of band names that don't mean anything.

    Twenty-Five Years Later, We're Still Living In Woodstock Nation 2008

  • As Porno for Pyros guitarist Peter DiStefano and Perry Farrell producer/ersatz emcee Tor Hyams took the stage, you could feel the crowd begin to press in, and you could see that the majority of the newcomers were sans child.

    Lollapalooza 08 Sunday: Nine Inch Nails bring us closer to God, going home | EW.com 2008

  • If you don't watch enough MTV to know that the world's coolest bands are Green Day, Porno for Pyros, the Rollins Band, Cypress Hill and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; or if the names Flea and Lars Ulrich mean nothing to you, then stay home.

    Woodstock '94: Back To The Garden 2008

  • I think once there was another Pyro, and a Pyros on an online game I was trying to play and I just added '9' on a whim.

    What's In a Name? 2006

  • Back in the alt rock heydey of the early 90's it seemed as if the Flaming Lips were everybody's opening band I saw them with Porno for Pyros with their goofball hit song "She Don't Use Jelly."

    Archive 2006-04-01 Jeff 2006

  • Back in the alt rock heydey of the early 90's it seemed as if the Flaming Lips were everybody's opening band I saw them with Porno for Pyros with their goofball hit song "She Don't Use Jelly."

    Oh! My lips are on fire. Jeff 2006

  • After criss-crossing the US 3 times, on their own as well as with Porno for Pyros and Sterolab, Cornershop barnstormed Europe releasing “When I Was Born for the 7th Time” in ‘96 which bore the pop hit

    FallNews - anecdotes 1999

  • The male red sighed, recalling the days of glory when Verminaard had led them personally, sitting astride the back of Pyros.

    Dragons of Winter Night Weis, Margaret 1985

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