Thursday, September 22, 2005

Tropical Depression Dickweed Adams

Shit. I missed Constitution Day AND Talk Like a Pirate Day this week. I just don't know where my head's been. Clogged up from the back to school cold I think. It better move through fast because it's only 3 Days to my birthday.

Meanwhile, some news (hot off the wire or something like that):
Names for Storms, Hurricanes Running Out
By JOHN PAIN
AP Thu Sep 22, 2005

There are only four names left for tropical storms and hurricanes this year: Stan, Tammy, Vince and Wilma.
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Currently, there are six separate 21-name lists and each of them is used every six years in a rotation. They don't include names that begin with q, u, x, y and z because there aren't enough names starting with those letters.

Here are some suggestions that spring immediately to my mind when I see that there is another hurricane brewing:
"Shit"
"Holy shit"
"What the fuck?"
"Oh fuck"

And/Or we could start giving them surnames. I suggest we use up the presidents', members of congress', and governors' last names. This would last a very long while. If we use even a 20 item list, just two presidents would get us a list of 40 unique names. We'd know that "Hurricane Oh-Fuck Bush" or "Tropical Storm Shit-Shit-Shit Bush" clearly happened during a different storm season from "Hurricane Oh-Fuck Nixon". Dad and son duos would be smooshed into the more recent use of the name with the earlier one being skipped.

Or if more mainstream and wholesome names like "Tequila AnJanette" are more what they're looking for, the National Hurricane Center people could go here for loads of suggestions.

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