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We all knew this would happen. It always happens, but it’s still horrifying to see. Put together by EJMaroun and brought to our attention by stefan, here’s a harrowing look at the state of Twitter comedy today. This is far more harrowing than a storm.
Why on earth do Americans insist on naming everything, I swear when we had snow we didn’t name it ‘John’.
Given how many new events (storms in particular) the media hypes, giving them nonrepeating names actually makes it easier to differentiate between them.
Saying “Sandy was worse than Wilma but not as bad as Katrina” is a lot easier than saying “the Atlantic hurricane of late-October 2012 was worse than the Atlantic hurricane of late-October 2005, but not as bad as the Atlantic hurricane of August 2005″.
It could be worse. They used to give hurricanes catchy names like “San Ciriaco’s Hurricane of 1899″ and “the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935″.
Sure, but we only remember them by those names because theyre memorable storms. You could name them 2012 Alpha, Beta, Gamma etc etc, and THEN move onto the traditional naming (There is actually defined naming conventions, with emergency names prepared incase there are enough storms to run out of pre-determined names for that year). At least that way I wouldnt, between Katrina Sandy and Wilma, be perpetually picturing a bunch of pissed of she-hulks terrorising cities.