What’s in a name? Not much really it’s at best a place holder for someone’s identity.
When there are too many John Smith’s at the convention center it certainly makes the need
of an uncommon middle initial quite useful. Through history the popularity of some names
have come and gone, I think Jennifer is one for girls these days. I’m not complaining
about too many girls being named Jennifer; hell my name Ian is one of the most common
names in the world being derived from some form of John. Still in an ever complicated
world it would be nice if a variety of names were encouraged. One of the best ways I can
think of to do this in a meager way is to quit naming hurricanes after common perfectly
usable names for people! Andrew in the 90’s and now Katrina. Katrina is a perfectly
good name but now if in the next 18 months or so you named a baby Katrina it would be
perfectly reasonable to assume that you hate: The South, New Orleans, Cajuns and by proxy
American Indians, and the French, the Blues, Mardi Gras and by proxy topless “girls gone
wild”, and Catholics, that scene from Easy Rider where they drop acid and freak out in
the old cemetery, etc. That’d be mighty hateful. Now Katrina, a perfectly good name,
is on a moratorium. I wonder why the National Weather Service does not just agree to
name hurricanes after historically bad people since those names are already no good? A
Hurricane Hitler or Khan would do just fine and then we wouldn’t have to take regular
names off the market and there might be somewhat less confusion at the convention center.
hurricane harmony has a nice ring to it…
If this recent one showed anything it’s that hurricanes kill people and break stuff they aren’t a good thing at all and I don’t think we have any shortage of bad people OR at the very least stupid names (ie Percival) that we could employee in “humanizing” said destruction.
“aren’t a good thing at all”? that is a very human perspective.
we can’t do that because it would suck if like hurricane attilla the hun ended up being a pansy little storm and didn’t do any damage and it would ruin the imaginations of children. “Oh yeah, hitler wasn’t so bad, it didn’t even knock down my fence.”
Well I’d hope the children would know about the real Hitler beyond their “imaginations” but yeah that is a good point I guess ultimately sequels would have to be allowed. So then the childrens could have this insightful dialogue:
1:”Hitler II was way more destructive than Hitler I or Hitler III.”
2:”Of course dude everyone knows that only the even Hitler’s have any gusto.”