Wednesday, September 3, 2008

My Year of the Hurricane

Most people don’t know this, but scientists have the names for hurricanes picked out long before they start tossing Mexican shanty towns into the ocean. The hurricanes are given names alphabetically in chronological order and alternate male to female. So the first hurricane of the year gets a female A-name, the second gets a male B-name, and so on.

In an ongoing, useless effort to remain politically correct, the National Hurricane Center tries to choose a wide range of names from various worldwide influences. Here’s a list of some fun ones from recent years:


- Olga
- Ingrid
- Ernesto
- Alberto

- Humberto
- Fernand
- Teresa

It would truly suck to get killed by Hurricane Teresa.

above: run fo yo life!

In recent years, I have hoped and dreamed that my name would hit the list. I checked every single year, hoping to find that glorious combination of letters. I knew however, that the name Kyle did not really stand a chance against other, more flavorful K-names such as Kamilah or Kareem. Also, seeing as how the letter K is a male name only every other year, I’ve not been too confident that my year would come.

Well it has, bitches.

above: omg!

I’m pleased to announce that 2008 is the year that scientists have finally listened to my Mother and officially classified me as a “natural disaster”.

If you think Katrina in 2005 showed us the full fury of the letter K, you are mistaken. Readers, please meet Hurricane Kyle*.

above: Hurricane Kyle

You might consider reinforcing your shanty towns, Cuba.

*The Big Book of Baby Names tells us that the name Kyle translates into either “handsome” or “narrow land”. I don’t care to read too deeply into the latter.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

So are you trying to say that the hurricane naming version of affirmative action has stolen your glory for many years? Because that seems to be the subtle undertones, that and you hate all ethnic people.

maxfield said...

Yeah what's your deal with the hate? I guess a hurricane has to be merciless. That shit made me laugh out loud; Hurricane Shanaynay, and you finally being classified as naturally disastrous.

Say what's up to florida for me, and be nice to cuba for crying out loud you sound like a bigot

Ashleyanne said...

Like the novelty name license plates from every tourist destination in the world, where "Ashleyanne" has never and will never be available, I will never find my name on that lovely list of disasters.

C-$ (clayton wells) said...

and remember in 2005 they used all the names and had to start over, but when that happens they use the greek alphabet.

Anonymous said...

lol. i don't want to have hurricane shanaynay, or hurricane shaniqua, because those names are retarded. i am not racist, i am not a white supremacist, i simply abhor what i refer to as black ghetto names. not only do they sound retarded, a survey proved that..what was it... i think 60% of people, upon seeing that someone was named something ridiculous like that, automatically assume they are less intelligent. delaneece, you arent doing your daughter a favor to name her barackisha, so dont try it.