Dear QotD?ers,
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I'm reading a sci-fi novel written in the 50's.
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I think Gustav is headed towards New Orleans on Monday. If so, it will be a terrible Labor day for them. There is a small chance I will get a hurricane day on Tuesday, but I'm so far from the coast we would only be risking power outages.
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I appreciate all the answers yesterday and knew who most of them were! ALF wins! Evie I sort of remember, but I get her mixed up with the "small Wonder" robot-girl. Justin, good choices. If only Riker was an alien... I dont' remember hypnotoad. I don't really like Q and his arrogance. Mom, ET still scares me unless it's in spanish. Alicia, I remember when that show came out. It was hilarious.
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Today's Question of the Day? is:
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How would you feel about a hurricane having your name? (Alicia can answer from experience)
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Love,
The Asker
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I was checking out some name trends the other day. ( i need to post the link, it's curiously interesting) Kristen peaked in the late 70's, but I don't feel that Kristen has ever become very mainstream. Almost all mugs, keychains, pencils, whatever came in Kristin, but not Kristen. I would wish for Hurricane Kristen to be a non-destructive, but name-legitimizing storm. But we'll have to wait until 2009 at least to see if that happens.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
There's been a Hurricane Tammy, but not a Tami yet.
I think Hurricane TamiJean would be awesome. (and I'm sure she'd be well behaved and not try and..y'know..kill people)
Meterological physics aside...
If I had a hurricane, I'd want it to do something super awesome, like spin the other direction or split into two storms and attack from two directions at once!
Just not Texas. Or America. Make it turn around and go for Africa! Or better yet, ANOTHER HURRICANE!
Hurricane Anne
This hurricane will mimic a forty-three year old hormonally-charged mother of three. The hurricane will cry incessantly and beyond reason and will wander around without a clue as to how to handle life anymore.
Oh, yeah. That was hurricane Fay last week! Yeah! Good to know that I will be more annoying than destructive!! Because I would have gotten tired and just gone to bed long before Fay quit.
I would not want a hurricane named after any of my children. They are too imaginative, creative and energetic. Nick would be the worst, as he would try to defy the laws of physics and natures and do the most awesome things ever.
Jacob would probably try to play music while he spun destruction. Everything is better with a musical score added.
Hurricane Jessica might be fun only because her brothers have convinced her that she has the power of invisibilty, so she could just disappear over Florida and the magically reappear over Missouri. That would be bad. But then again, maybe brothers shouldn't convince thier sisters that they can disappear!!
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
Is this the website you mentioned, Kristen? This one explores name trends over time. Very cool.
Hurricane Sabrina would threaten the coast, but only enough to give every a day off and then weaken so everyone could enjoy their day.
Interesting that the females do not want their hurricanes to be destructive in their wakes. Of the top thirty most destructive hurricanes, twenty of them had female names!! (I assumed Frances was a female name, but I understand that this is not necessarily a valid assumption.)
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastcost.shtml
Hurricane Gustave...what a guy!
Sabrina, that was exactly the website I was thinking of. Thank you!
Anne, while storms named after your children would be incredibly unique, I agree that the probably shouldn't happen.
after sitting through a hurricane, i would definitely NOT want a hurricane to be named after me. i'd rather bring a tropical depression that bring so much needed rain. :)
-oh, and i had lunch with your brother and jacky last weekend. it was fun but it would have been ten time better if you were there!
Not good! I would not want my name to remembered as a name of destruction. So I think I would pass on the whole 'opportunity'.
hurricane alicia hit houston 6 weeks after i was born. it was the most destructive (monetarily) storm to hit houston until rita in 2005. yes, the signs should have been there from the beginning that i am very expensive...!
and i completely understand what you're saying, kristen. every "alicia" that i have ever met is younger than me. i don't know if the hurricane made the name more popular/well-known or if that's just coincidence, but i think the statistics might indicate that the number of girls named alicia increased dramatically after 1983. i mean, except for alicia silverstone and alicia keys. they're older than me... but i also don't know them.
p.s. apparently they retire names of really destructive hurricanes. so there will never be another hurricane alicia. and my younger sister is named katrina. if you ever hear about hurricane jenna coming to town, you better head for the hills. she's my older sister, and if she follows the trend she will cause even MORE damage than hurricane katrina... i'm just saying...
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