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Honestly, hurricane names suck. The safely named, innocuous
Sandy did billions in damage and possibly cost Mitt Romney
the election - gotta have a better set of names than that.
I propose that the weather agency gods that come up with
said names drop their baby naming dictionaries, and instead
use a set of rules similar to the naming of racehorses.
With the theoretically worsening weather, this way you can
also come up with great race horse graphics about which one
was an impotent dud of unrealized expectations, and which one was
storm is the worst of all time.
To wit
https://www.npr.org...r-naming-racehorses
[theircompetitor, May 05 2018]
Storm's a Comin
https://www.npr.org...st-in-snl-cold-open
[theircompetitor, May 06 2018]
Metal Map
http://www.metal-graph.com/
All the Norwegian Metal bands [Cuit_au_Four, May 06 2018]
[link]
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Why not crowd-source the names? |
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Once we've got "Stormy McStormface" and its ilk out of the way, the
level of creativity is bound to rise, provided reusing old names is
forbidden. |
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If this is reference to the orange-faced one, my advice
would to make a clean breast of it. |
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Following theircompetitor's link I found there was a horse named 50 Shades of Hay ... |
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Had "The Flash" yesterday : walked into the vet's in sunny, clear sky weather. Chatting with the desk-guy for a few minutes, then turn around and look outside. |
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Where it's raining, sideways. Small monsoon hit the area; 120kph winds, power outage to 200,000. |
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Can we name one Stephanie Clifford? |
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And are there rules for naming the BeeGee’s? |
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I say we take Norwegian Death Metal band names because they are
both plentiful and appropriate [link]. |
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According to that map, there are more metal bands in
Norway
than there are Norwegians. |
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(Off-topic aside: Norwegian names are ambiguous, in that
they change in unpredictable and inconsistent ways upon
coming of age; and also in that some characters in the
Norwegian alphabet are interchangeable. Moreover, it is
common to give children the same given name as their
parents and/or siblings. As a result, the Norwegian census
is notoriously unreliable, and has an accuracy of ±10% in
most districts.) |
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And this is a problem because ... ? |
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// crowd-source the names .... the level of creativity is bound to rise. // |
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You're relying on the creativity of the general public, or more specifically the segment with too much time on their hands and an addiction to the internet ? |
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What's wrong with this picture ? |
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<Turns on spectrophotometer, takes reading/> |
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How's that, now ? Better or worse ? |
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Brexit and nationalist trends are not going to help
the white balance, either. |
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Or maybe we could use the names of porn stars (Stormy Daniels).
Hell, just choose a new theme every year and go with it. |
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It still seems a bit pinkish on my screen... |
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//And are there rules for naming the BeeGee’s? |
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Huh Don't they already have names? Did their management
just go point at one of the (alleged) band and say "Hey, you
over there"? |
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I think it was rather like the rule for naming Voldemort.
"Don't." |
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// Hell, just choose a new theme every year and go with it. // |
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"This year, storms will be named after 14th-century Javanese poets" ? |
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