#nameourstorms

[red marley]

The Met Office are looking for a list of names to use for storms over the British Isles . Surly the collective wisdom that is YACF can help?

Here are a few to start with

• Every character in Eastenders in height order
• Snooker players who have storm-like nicknames
• All the numbers in alphabetical order
• All the words in the OED in word length order (starting with the longest)
• Katie Hopkins
• The next Dan Brown novel, one word at a time

[T42]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_theological_demons

[hatler]

yacf user names ?

[ian]

I always thought that they should give hurricanes proper scary names. I mean, seriously, Katrina? All I hear is that bloody song. Sandy, sounds like someone's gran. I wouldn't run away. What next, Hurricane Maureen. She's pretty miffed people, so get out of the way.

I reckon I'd run if they told me Hurricane Skullfucker was grinding up the the coast. Demon names definitely, you're going to run from a Asmodeus or Astaroth. Unless you're Chuck Norris.

As for Britain where we just make an absentminded pass at actual weather I think we may be better naming them after popular entertainers. Just not Jimmy or Rolf.

[L CC]

As for Britain where we just make an absentminded pass at actual weather I think we may be better naming them after popular entertainers. Just not Jimmy or Rolf.

O, I don't know. At least then the names would put a frisson of fear into people.

[Not Rolf though. I still won't believe it of Rolf.]

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

- swearwords as neologised in the rant thread
- Playschool toys
- enemies of the Doctor

[Kim]

We've already had Hurricane Bawbag.  Nothing else can compete.

[T42]

We've already had Hurricane Bawbag.  Nothing else can compete.

Wiki sayeth:

The Free University of Berlin names low-pressure systems affecting Europe and gave the name Friedhelm to this storm.

How Teutonically boring of them.

[Pedaldog.]

If it was a dull, damp and wet storm it could be "The Clegg" but God help us when Hurricane Thatcher comes round, selectively wrecking poor people and blowing money seeds into the "Right sort of garden".

[TimC]

Hmm. Passing Shower Pete? Thunderstorm Tom? Drizzly Derek? Windy William? The possibilities are endlezzz...

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

How about top British cyclists?  On 2nd thoughts maybe not, it would stir up anti-cyclists.

[mrcharly-YHT]

'wierdybeardyaudax'
'teethgrinder'

Actually, no need to go on. All storms should be called teethgrinder.

[essexian]

Hurricane Headwind?

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Cliches. Hurricane Strength, anyone?

[Riggers]

Hummers.

"Hummers continues to make its way slowly towards the Irish coast, and should make land at 09 hundred hours GMT"

[Morat]

Hurricane Tiddles
Monsoon Molly

Just to take the sting out of it

[T42]

Just for fun, call them after towns:

"North Berwick is now approaching Southend".

[ian]

I dunno, Hurricane Poppy scares me. Poppy is the name terribly middle-class parents give to their psychologically dysfunction infants. Poppy, Poppy, they'll say, that terminal eee whining its way to infinity, stop stabbing mummy in the eye, remember what the doctor said. They're always in sports centre changing rooms and Poppy is always stabbing, maiming, or screeching like a demon dipped in holy water, while mother wheedles away. If Poppy stops stabbing mummy, Poppy can have a pony.

Poppy, of course, is the Demon of Very Bad Things, and you shouldn't upset her.

[Cudzoziemiec]

- Characters in Harry Potter
- Entries in The Meaning of Liff

Actually, those are the same.

[Mr Larrington]

I dunno, Hurricane Poppy scares me. Poppy is the name terribly middle-class parents give to their psychologically dysfunction infants. Poppy, Poppy, they'll say, that terminal eee whining its way to infinity, stop stabbing mummy in the eye, remember what the doctor said. They're always in sports centre changing rooms and Poppy is always stabbing, maiming, or screeching like a demon dipped in holy water, while mother wheedles away. If Poppy stops stabbing mummy, Poppy can have a pony.

Poppy, of course, is the Demon of Very Bad Things, and you shouldn't upset her.

One of the offspring of appalling fat-tongued mockney nuisance Jamie Oliver is called Poppy, as if the poor child didn't have enough to cope with.

[ian]

Hmm, proper hellspawn then. I can only imagine a recipe went bad and he opened the hell portal (too much thyme usually does it). Thusly, he's blessed with – to give her her full honorific – Poppy, the Demon of Terribly Bad Things and Now Look You've Made Mummy Very Very Upset. Hurricanes happen when she doesn't get her way, earthquakes are her tantrums, she gets mildly miffed and volcanoes erupt and airplanes fall out of the sky like ungainly rain.

[TimC]

Cliches. Hurricane Strength, anyone?

Hurricane Lamp? I love lamp!

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Hurricane Force

As an airman, I thought you'd have gone for Hurricane Hawker (I know, other way round).

[red marley]

Nah, these are way too dramatic.

How about

• Hurricane Meh
• Hurricane Whatevvah
• Hurricane Schmurricane

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

• Hurricane you go a bit quicker
• Hurricane you catch it
• Hurricane ye West is over there with Kim Kardashian