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Wynette? I mean, why not?

*glares*

Just be careful, dammit. She can hear you.

Hello, Hurricane Naming Department? Are you on crack? Calling it "Tammy" does not help. Honestly.

In fact, give up the baby name book thing altogether. Start giving them less humanising names, like Hurricane Roadbase, Shovel and Toaster.

Tammy. Geez.

No kidding. The last hurricane on the list for this year is Wilma, which is not so bad except that it's the name of a friend's mother.

At least if they get through the list and need more names they start naming them Alpha, Beta, etc.

It's also the name of Fred Flinstone's wife, who is a rather formidable woman.

But I'm with

deepfishy. They need to give hurricanes names that don't make people ashamed of their names.

I know a couple people named Katrina who are going through way much drama as a result of sharing it with the hurricane.

[Maybe if we offer makeup in sacrifice to this hurricane, it will be appeased.]

Personally, I think Betty was more formidable- more spine than Wilma, and karate lessons- but that's just me.

I could've sworn Betty and Wilma took the Karate lessons together and were both all "Aaahhh! Haki-saki-HAH!".

But Wilma has her moments where she's pretty badass. I can remember her going upside people's heads or carrying giant brontosaurus platters over her head. And for that matter carrying big ol' Fred one handed.

Did they? It's possible. I don't remember the episode, just Barney saying that in a fight he'd want to be behind Betty, because with Betty's karate expertise it was the safest place to be. I always just thought Betty was more of her own woman, because I don't remember her being as needy about her man's permission to go out or do stuff- and because Barney was only too happy to let her take charge on multiple occasions, but that may have been a case of Barney having more sense than Fred even if he wasn't the sharpest pebble in the landslide otherwise.

didn't like Fred much.

Rightfully so. Early on in the series, Fred was a burrosombrero. He got better after Wilma got pregnant and had Pebbles.

We could make better jokes, then, too. "The coast of South Carolina got lightly Toasted, Bob, but it looks like this one was down to crumbs by the time it hit us."

Exactly. The jokes would be so obviously corny that we could get a whole running banter happening, as opposed to one-shot riffs on Beatles songs which - as any fool knows - only serve to enrage the ~~beast~~ hurricane.

*so confused*

What's wrong with the name Tammy?

*Blames it on just waking up*

It is kind of a silly, fluffy, harmless name for something that packs more wallop than an A-bomb. I'm just sayin'.

Back before they settled on the personal name thing, there was a brief period in the early 1950s where they used the military letter-naming system, Able-Baker-Charlie, which did have the drawback (which we will see with the Greek alphabet) of what do you do if you have to retire a storm name? I can see that using ordinary nouns would simplify things for people who weren't all that thrilled about having their names ties to a storm, but I can also see the bad jokes we'll get from the TV news people: "Hurricane Eggbeater is moving into the Florida Straits, where it's really mixing things up!" I'm not sure we need to encourage them to talk cute any more than they already do.

Aaaaaaaaaah.

YOUR ICON. *pats its noodly appendage*

Heehee! FSM is so kewl.

Nothing at all, but it might be hard for some people to take it seriously, and if they don't take it seriously they'll make fun of it, and then the storm will HEAR them and ramp up to Category Eight and devour the Carolinas or something. Happened with Mitch, and it just keeps happening since.

Meep.

*pokes your brain* JOHN. JOHN, GET OUT HERE. DEZ IS GETTING MARRIED.

Wasn't 'Tammy' the name of Debbie Reynold's recurring movie character? Some sort of backwoods mary sue who charmed the world with her naive charm and whatnot?

Does this count as saying something, or do we just need to refrain from making musical connections, ala Katrina and the waves, and Lovely Rita?

Oh, I thought I was the only one old enough to remember that!

"The old hooty hoot owl hoots up above/ Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love..."

Yeah, it really was that sappy.

I want to name hurricanes.

"Hurricane Batshit Insanity" would definitely be on my list, as would "Hurricane Horrible Destruction."

Not "Hurricane Country Singer."

"Hurricane You Should Be Running".

I think we could have loads of fun naming hurricanes like they were starships in Iain M. Banks books.

"Following the assessment of damages dealt to the coasts of Georgia, the Carolinas, Delaware, and Maryland, it was unanimously voted that the fourteenth Atlantic hurricane of this season have its name posthumously changed to Hurricane Holy Fucking Shit."

"The Category Six hurricane incoming at this time has been renamed from Wilma to Oh Fuck Not Again Someone Sacrifice A Cow."

Winnar!

Hurricane OMGWTF hasn't been mentioned yet, and that's probably the simplest name. We could just append a number on it.

Hurricane OMGWTF1...OMGWTF2...and so on.

*points and laughs* I find that highly funny.

You know, if I were bored enough, and not a two time science major, I'd write some paper on why most of the destructive hurricanes this season are named after women's names.

The problem with Greek alphabet names is that then you get Hurricane Joe's Cousin's Sorority House.

We should let the stars name them. Then they'd be Hurricane Kor-El, Hurricane Moon Unit, and Hurricane Apple.

And Moxie Crimefighter! Oh, man, we should so do this....