Let’s just hold a lottery every year. The winners get to pick one name each!
I’m not the only one who thinks that some people over in the Middle East wouldn’t be happy if we happened to use #7, am I?
Jeez.
Nice to know the taxpayers are getting their money’s worth.
Why worry about such heady matters as taxes and the war on terrorism when you can speechify about hurricane names, for crying out loud?
And Dirk, what happend to number 6?
Just don’t name any Hurricane Spike…Shelton Lee will sue yer ass.
Lord Ashtar,
At the risk of having a fatwah (is the the correct term?) declared against me, I have to say that Muhammed was just a “prophet” and shouldn’t be any worse than naming a storm Isaiah or Elijah. Of course, considering Elijah’s acts on Mt. Carmel, naming a hurricane Elijah might actually be appropo…
ivylass,
You are correct! So, in light of my previous paragraph:
6. Elijah
- Dirk
I read the list of names and they don’t seem too “white” to me.
IIRC Yolanda was on one of the lists.
and besides I kinda doubt we’ll ever get to Wanda or Sam
Sam’s a white name huh?
Play it Sam…
All hurricanes should cast off their slave names and refer to themselves as “X”.
Ahem. We seem to have covered “black” and “white”. Are there no “red” or “yellow” names. How about Lonesome Dove or Red Tailed Hawk? What about Li or Wang? Come on, diversity is more than just…
oh nevermind
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Dammit danceswithcats! I can’t get Hurricane Bukkake out of my head!
[slight hijack]
My poor ex-stepgrandfather (yes, I really do have an ex-stepgrandfather, at least if he’s still alive) was a very nice man, and was also a German Jew with the very unfortunate name of Adolf.
Nobody called him that, of course; for some odd reason, everyone called him Bunny.
(Hurricane Bunny?)
Hurricane Wang? Just think for a minute what that actually sounds like…
Hurricane Jesus
Hurricane Julio
Hurricane Juanita
The problem with Hispanic hurricane names is that they all seem to start with “J”
I know. Let’s name them after sports teams. Then we can have a headline that says “Yankees destroys Tampa Bay.”
“Hurricane Redskins” would have the double advantage of fulfilling the racial quota and giving Sheila Jackson Lee a coronary.
But “Hurricane Hurricanes” might cause some confusion.
I know it is a bit late for this conversation, but I had to comment on how stupid this Congresswoman is. She needs to focus on important matters in her area rather than stupid sht like this. Really get a life and try to improve the lives of the people in Houston you stupid cnt!
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We could have the A hurricane be a different spelling of Antoine every year!
FWIW, Sheila Jackson Lee’s still in office. One wonders how she would have reacted if Hurricane “Nnenna” (to pick a random African name) had devastated New Orleans in 2005 instead of “Katrina”.
Just Nigerian baby names would make her brains explode, and there are some lovely and ironic names.
Hurricane Salimah sounds good. “Safe, Sound and Healthy”.
So I’m the only one here who doesn’t think it’s a bad idea to mix it up now and then?
The subtle implication is that WASPy culture is the “default,” which is becoming demographically untrue, among other things.
It does seem like they’ve pulled from a wider pool in upcoming years. Good on them.
Inclusiveness is fine. But the pattern is alternating male/female names which many of the posters who’ve proposed names seemed to have forgotten.
BTW, typhoon names are Asian/Oceanian. Are we supposed to throw some Anglo names in their lists too? 