# Anyone else read "Hurricane Dean" as "Howard Dean"?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 21, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438 "2007-08-21T23:48:28Z")
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### Author:  [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/1 "2007-08-21T23:48:28Z")
I browse through news titles, and generally don’t pay much attention to what I am glancing over unless something catches my attention. I certainly did a double-take when I read “Howard Dean Hits Mexico”. First of all, what the hell is Howard Dean doing hitting Mexico? Second of all, does the news even still cover this guy? I thought his period of fame, as it were, was long gone.
And then, I belatedly realize is a hurricane, not a former candidate for the US presidency, that is pummeling Mexico.
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### Author:  [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/2 "2007-08-22T05:20:39Z")
Not me.
😉
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/3 "2007-08-22T06:24:35Z")
I haven’t made the sort of dyslexic connection you have, but yeah. Every time I hear of it, I think of Howard. 😛
ETA: Howard Dean is still the head of the DNC… still occasionally in the news.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/4 "2007-08-22T09:15:32Z")
Fark has already been playing up the connection.
“Hurricane Dean to hit Texas, followed by Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and all the way to Washington! YEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHRRRRR!!!”
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/5 "2007-08-22T09:19:00Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight]
Fark has already been playing up the connection.
“Hurricane Dean to hit Texas, followed by Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and all the way to Washington! YEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHRRRRR!!!”
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The Boston Globe has the unfortunate headline “Hurrican Dead \*\*Roars \*\* Into Mexico” (bolding mine).
YEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHRRRRR!!!
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### Author:  [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/6 "2007-08-22T13:19:14Z")
Obviously it was trying to hit Crawford.
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### Author:  [@FlyingCowOfDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingCowOfDoom)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/7 "2007-08-22T14:10:30Z")
I thought Hurricane was Howard Dean’s nickname…
But seriously, yes I also initially misinterpreted the headlines as referring to the former presidential candidate.
–FCOD
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### Author:  [@Wonderwall6129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonderwall6129)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/8 "2007-08-22T14:38:04Z")
I thought I was the only person!!! I looked at the TV at Ruby Tuesday’s on Monday and I thought I saw “Howard Dean rips through southern states, to hit Florida by Wednesday.”
And I thought,
YYAAAAAHHHHRR!!!
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/9 "2007-08-22T17:50:47Z")
I’m actually a big fan of a show called _Supernatural_, which has a lead character named Dean. Thus, I am vastly amused by each headline that comes up and / or going to hell.
_hides in handbasket_
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/10 "2007-08-22T17:53:38Z")
I didn’t mistake “Hurricane” for “Howard”, but sometimes they’ve been just using “Dean” as shorthand, and Howard is what always comes to mind first for me.
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### Author:  [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/11 "2007-08-22T17:54:00Z")
re. the OP: I can see the resemblance – they’re both blowhards.
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/12 "2007-08-23T01:53:46Z")
I’ve been out of the country for a few days and checking the news on my Blackberry. When I saw things about Dean pummeling Jamaica, I thought of Howard Dean for a moment, but most of my attention was focused on Dave Chappelle doing his imitation of Howard Dean pummeling Jamaica: “We’re going to go to the airport, and get in a taxi, and go get some of the finest chronic known to America… BYEAWWWWWW! And then we’re going to get some hookers and trash our hotel room like a hurricane just hit it… BYEAWWWWWWW!! And then we’re going to run up the long distance bill by calling Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughters… BYEAWW BYEAW BYEAWWWWW!”
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### Author:  [@CoBa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoBa)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/13 "2007-08-23T02:30:50Z")
I can’t help but think:
**Howard Dean angry!**
**Howard Dean smash!**
Yarrrrrgh!
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-read-hurricane-dean-as-howard-dean/416438/14 "2007-08-23T12:47:16Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
I didn’t mistake “Hurricane” for “Howard”, but sometimes they’ve been just using “Dean” as shorthand, and Howard is what always comes to mind first for me.
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Yeah, I was alarmed by the headline “ **Dean weakening**.” I thought, _gosh, I didn’t know he was ill._
Sailboat