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2005-09-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve White 2005-09-21 00:03|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred, would you lend them your name generator?

"This is CNN. Hurricane Thumblinster Uphong3827 is approaching the Florida coast."

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-21 08:17|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-21 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL!!

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-09-21 08:42|| 2005-09-21 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Oct. '05 issue of National Geographic has a single page article on naming tropical storms. key line -

"If we have more than 21 storms," says Frank Lepore of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, "we have bigger problems than what they are going to be named."

Posted by Hupaimble Elmolurt2226 2005-09-21 10:03|| 2005-09-21 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL Jackal.

Seriously tho, I think there's a procedure for this, I think it happened once in the Pacific. Reuse from the top and add a b?

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-21 12:03|| 2005-09-21 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 What Steve said:
In the event that more than 21 named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and so on.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-09-21 14:19|| 2005-09-21 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Fang
Godzilla
Fluffy
Storm-O-Rama
Run For You Lives!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-09-21 15:58|| 2005-09-21 15:58|| Front Page Top

#7 serious tho, whats up with these damn names i keep getting my last was thraing hupopluper

Posted by Uninetle Hupating2229 2005-09-21 17:00|| 2005-09-21 17:00|| Front Page Top

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