What's in a NAME?

Why do they name hurricanes?
How do they choose the name?
and, of course,
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Some names that you should not call a hurricane:

1. DENNIS
destined to be, um... a MENACE.

2. IVAN
gonna be TERRIBLE.

3. ADOLPH
ahem, puhleeze.

It turns out that hurricanes weren't even named until a novel came out in the 40's that had a huge storm as the focus- and a woman's name was given to it. Shortly thereafter, all hurricanes were given women's names. This changed 20 or so years ago, so that alternate hurricanes are given male and female names. European storms have different names, and there are even more names for tropical storms in other parts of the world. Australia's got a very interesting list- check it out when you get a minute.
Asian storms mostly have Asian names. So if they've chosen "People Killer" as a possible moniker for storm #7 this year, I can't translate.

In any case, I think the names for storms- if we must have names- should be hopeful.
I get the whole alphabetical thing, so how about:

ARID.

BREEZY.

CALM.

DELIGHTFUL.

?

Instead, poor Uncle Andrew's name is ruined for good - at least they take a name off the list if the storm kills someone. And now as I have found out, we can look forward to BORIS, MAX, PAINE, and INIGO (prepare to die). My only hope is the WALDO will never be found.

They should have asked me first.