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September 15-21, 2005

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Hurricane Name Game

We're not happy with the World Meteorological Organization, the Geneva-based outfit charged with naming hurricanes. Sure, maybe the whole Katrina thing was an accident. After all, who'd expect Swiss weather geeks to be up on their '80s pop hits. But now we've got Ophelia huffing it up the coast. You know Ophelia, Hamlet's gf who drowned in a river. It's like the WMO — which picks these names well in advance — is intentionally firing up the irony engine, setting people up to be doused, or worse, by giant gusting puns. Which got us thinking:

The Bad Idea Factory's idiotically ironic hurricane names:
  1. The Scorpions
  2. Sigmund
  3. Aquaman
  4. Ariel
  5. SpongeBob
  6. Flipper
  7. Gilligan
  8. Kevin Costner
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