You know what? I'm tired of the Weather Service using the names of people for storms.
If it's a bad storm, and it has your name, the first time you introduce yourself to someone, they will invariably say in the clever mocking way clever mockers have, "OooooooH--Hurricane Camille!" I used to go to church with a girl named Camille, and the first thing that always pops in my head when I think of her name is the hurricane. I went to college with a girl named Katrina, and now if I ever see her again, I'll probably think about Hurricane Katrina. Andrew, Charley, Hugo, Ivan, Frederick--and now, Wilma, beloved wife of Fred Flintstone.
Anyway, I really am serious--they should quit naming them after people, and start coming up with goofy names like the drug companies do with new medicines or comic book writersdo when they name villains. A'gustin. Blowina. Cyclown. Deepcee. Stuff like that.
Of course, what'll happen is people will start naming their kids after them.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 20, 2005 10:27 AMI right like aunt Wilma. Last I heard, she was running a concrete foundation company in east Texas.
Posted by: Janis Gore at October 20, 2005 12:09 PMI used to have an Aunt Wilma, too. She was a peach.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 20, 2005 01:10 PM