Random Questions Picking at the Remnants of my Brain

I shouldn't be the only one lying awake at night wondering about these things...

I saw that one of the latest tropical storms was named Hermine and I couldn't help but wonder...Do you think the storm namer person really wanted to call it Hermione? I read tonight that it was weakening to a depression. Do you think that was Ron's fault?

And the last two storms were Fiona and Gaston, which makes me wonder if Storm Namer has a kid that really likes Shrek and Disney movies...

Add your own random questions. I don't mind. Really. :o)

"...I read tonight that it was weakening to a depression. Do you think that was Ron's fault?"

:Sputter, sputter, wipe liquid from monitor:
Note to self, um, self, you should know better than to drink and LT, especially in HE or (The Green Dragon).

jp, I honestly think they have been desperate for names for years (decades, even). But those three in a row do have the feel of someone with several children, LOL.

LOL! Sorry for the spew!

Those names have been around for years:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml

edit: Although I have to admit when I first saw Hermine, I thought of Hermione as well.

JP! OMW! Just 3 hours ago I muttered to my mom that they misspelled Hermione's name!

I love that link.

Here is more information about retired hurricane names.

I was retired in 1992! Why didn't anybody tell me!

I wondered why you continued to wreak havoc all across the internet, Mr A. Go sit in the sun and take a nap will ya!

Is it weird that I'm kinda hoping we get to see Hurricane Ophelia next year?

hey in 2014 if we get to letter P I'll be a hurricane! (Paulette) I hope I'm nice and gentle.

LOL! It figures you would be retired, MrA! And does anyone really think when they name these things? I mean, of course a Hurricane Eloise or Hurricane Dennis would be destructive! Why don't we add Thor to the list of names? Or Ares? Or Set?

Catbastet informs me that Eris is the goddess of discord in Greek mythology. Did the people at Droid even think about this when they named their smart phone?

edited because I can't spell discord. How come you never notice the little red line under a misspelled word until after you hit the submit button?

8: Bib, it would probably just go throw itself at the Mississippi river.

When I hit the send button, why can't a message pop up saying:

You are sending this message to *email address here*. Are you sure you want to send?

Because if I got a message like that, I might not accidentally send the message to the entire email group instead of the one person I wanted to see it. *blushing*

"Dear Doctor, i have this rash..."

"Hi X, can you believe that Y said that Z was a..."

"Did you check the tight buns on the tennis guy last week..."

"Don't tell anyone, but the bodies are buried in the..."

"I had to replace all the goldfish last week. So far the kids haven't noticed..."

What happened to the goldfish?!

psst! Bib you don't what to know!

13: Ahhahahahahaha! No, it was nothing like those. I simply embarrassed my daughter to the entire homeschooling community, that's all.

What did happen to the goldfish?

LOL! No, seriously, what happened to the goldfish? Did it have anything to do with the buried bodies?

Oh my goodness! Are they sleeping with the fishes?!

#18 LOL

Did they flush the bodies with the goldfish? Better get the plunger...

The goldfish hmmm
Well once upon a time there was a little boy named Jayson, who entrusted the care of his goldfish to his aunt and uncle...

When one of the fish died (of natural causes) we didn't have the heart to tell him. So we did what anyone would do. We put the goldfish in the freezer and before he returned from holidays we took the frozen fish to the pet store to find a replacement (task entrusted to the uncle).

On his return, he remarked about how different the fish looked. We had to then explain how fish transform their looks as they get older. It helped that it was the time of transformers. I can,t remember if we've come clean about it yet?

The goldfish is a lie!

Do you take the gold goldfish and the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe or do you take the orange goldfish and you stay in Librarything, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes?

I can see little Jayson growing up and being entrusted with someone's goldfish. The same thing happens, he replaces the goldfish and is hit with realization when he explains to the nephew that goldfish change with age.

Wait a minute...Does that mean there isn't a huge pond at the Happy Endings Ranch for old goldfish???
8-0
MR FINNY!!!!!
I need to make a call...

I could have predicted that Hurricane Igor would be strong based on the name. After all, he does all the heavy lifting for Dr Frankenstein. Am I the only one who thinks of these things when naming stuff? (Says the woman who named the crazy orange cat Hobgoblin. No wonder he chews on my books.)

Reminds me of the very old, very corny joke - What's the difference between a ghost and a lame sailor? One's a hobgoblin and the other's a gob hobblin'.

We all have these days.

We do? We who?

So I was reading this post at Hyperbole and a Half and it ended with a whole bunch of updates about the proper term for a group of zombies (she was trying to decide between a zeppelin of zombies and a legion of zombies) and it got me thinking...What is the proper terminology for other groups of monsters and magical creatures? Why doesn't anyone think to write this down somewhere? What if I came across a group of vampires or unicorns? What would I call them?

a lurch of zombies.

a thrust of unicorns.

a nest of vampires (archaic; modern idiom is a sparkle of vampires).

#31: The last one made me literally lol, which of course made a coworker ask what was so funny. She didn't get it.

Great!

a yearning of vampires? a brood of vampires?

#33: I've certainly read many stories about yearning vampires! They brood too. Hmm...

MrA, I think we could only use a sparkle of vampires for one series, don't you think? :o)

I thought of a quake of giants and a shriek of banshees.

What about werewolves? And phantoms? And orcs?

Orcs came in armies, didn't they?

A pack of werewolves?

A phalanx of phantoms

And a haunting of ghosts?

a gaggle of goblins.

a grimace of goblins.

a gangrel of goblins.

a smudge of goblins.

a stench of goblins.

a presence of phantoms.

a rumour of ghosts.

A horde of goblins.

A flock of seagulls.

LOL! I'm partial to a stench of goblins and a flock of seagulls. :o)

A ponce of 80's bands.

A coif of 80's bands.

*snort*
An optic of cyclopes.
A squadron of dragons?
A pan of brownies
A flutter of pixies

A pan of pixies.

A dragoon of dragons.

A darkness of goths.

A depression of goths.

A gloom of goths.

A glitter of goths.

A flame of dragons.

A scorch of dragons.

A bother of balrogs.

A pestilence of dragons.

A plague of pixies.

"Cornish pixies?!"

A pastie of pixies.

MrA, stop pasting the pixies.

A dig of dwarves. Dwarfs?

A wave of kelpies.

A pixel of pixies?

An emo of goths?

A goth of Emos?

A tickle of Emos?

#49: I think the correct term would be A tickle of Elmos :P

A big of birds?

A cookie of Monsters?

A whining of Emos.