Tuesday, September 27, 2005

On the Naming of Cyclones

Talbo makes an excellent point:

I'd hate to be named either 'Rita' or 'Katrina' right now. It just wouldn't be good.

In the future, I move that all cyclones or natural disasters be named after dictators like 'Hurricane Hitler' or 'Cyclone Stalin' or 'Whirlwind Whitlam'. That would be much more sensible.

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:07 am

    How about Light Breeze Latho or Big Breeze Bob Hawke.

    Nope, pathetic.

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  2. Bob seems to be producing a bit of wind at the moment ... maybe deliberately, as a way of drawing the attention away from light-breeze Latho. Whitlam always was a windbag though.

    I'm quite fond of Hawkey. Not a bad PM, he was.

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  3. One of the greatest things about Hawke is living overseas and telling people that one of our former prime ministers is in the Guinness book of records for a beer drinking competition.

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  4. Could you make an exception for Typhoon Tony (Blair)?

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  5. Blizzard Blair, anyone?

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