Wendy 1904 play "Peter Pan" and its 1911 novelization "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie. Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s but subsequently declined. The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet friend W. E. Henley. With the common childhood difficulty pronouncing "R"s, Margaret reportedly used to call him "my fwiendy-wendy". The name Wendy in Dutch is either of Anglo-Saxon origin or an abbreviation of names such as Wendela (an old-fashioned name which probably means related to the Vandals). Chinese women with the same or similar-sounding characters as their given names often anglicise their
The F.U.'s the tracks for the compilation "This is Boston Not LA" and eventually three LPs on indie labels. Sox named the band in reference to a comment made by Wendy O. Williams in an interview in which she said [smashing TVs] "is a great way to say 'F U!' to society." The F.U.'s started out playing fast, thrashy hardcore punk, and their first recorded output was on the 1982 Modern Method compilation, "This Is Boston, Not L.A.", which also featured tracks by Gang Green, Jerry's Kids and The Freeze. A companion 7-inch EP, "Unsafe At Any Speed", included another F.U.'s track.