Have you heard any news person yet say anything about "I don't like Ike?" Because if they haven't, they will soon. Hurricanes just seem to bring out the lamest news cliches.
"The cone of death" is new to me. Sounds like a monster ice cream treat. There's a diner near me that has a fifties-style ice cream bar, and their most monstrous concoction is called the Elvis: five scoops of ice cream with all these toppings on it... pineapple, marshmallow creme, peanut butter, whip cream, I do't know what all. I picture the Cone of Death being like that, only in a cone. Very messy. They could also call it the Splat.

Is that any relation to the Cone of Silence ??

Regretfully, the news is more like ..sheesh, I don't know..It's something, but it just rails me to listen to this insane stuff.

Actually, I am 'spot on' for this season..perhaps you recall my prediction, 2, maybe three would make landfall this year.

Of course, it takes a while to grow enough hair to get it right, and I have no idea how it's done..but my Dad did it pretty dadblame perfect.

My gosh, you'd be fun to go shopping with, Starla.

What's your hurricane prediction method, Owen? Does it involve holding a cane toad in each hand and rubbing their bellies on your ears?

Thanks Miss Donnah. I also liked your Ike n Tina crack. Never saw that one coming. lol
I thought the hurricane prediction method involved rubbing two Boy Scouts together. Or tinfoil hats. Or maybe a pure-white duck strangled by the light of a full moon?

"I thought the hurricane prediction method involved rubbing two Boy Scouts together."

That's ex-Congressman Foley's method.

Oh right, my mistake! Easily done.

This is the full Mark Foley Method of Hurricane Prediction, not sanctioned by the National Hurricane Center:
Rub two Boy Scouts together. Measure resulting precip. Multiply by the width of Larry Craig's widest stance, divide by George W. Bush's IQ. Round upward to the nearest whole number. You now have the expected number of named storms in the given Atlantic hurricane season. To calculate how many will make landfall on the US mainland, subtract 12 from the final result above.
This has been your spunky young Weather Girl, Starla Darling, reporting for Peach-News.com. Juicy news anytime.

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Damn it, Starla set the bar too high..

Actually I was thinking that Sheila Jackson-Lee got her wish about black names for storms when Ike rolled into port..but I think she was looking for more like Finesse and Tameeeka..or maybe Orangejello...

Actually, Donnah..I go out to the shed and gas up my Poulan. If it starts on the first pull, it's going to be a busy season..and so on.
If my neighbor hasn't returned my Poulan, I try the generator. Same formula.

Yeah, I remember Sheila Jackson-Lee. Pretty funny, her raising such a fuss over hurricane names not being "black" enough. I mean, her name is Sheila, for god's sake, as Irish as red hair and leprechauns! Ike doesn't strike me as a particularly "black" name. If I was going to find a black name starting with I I'd pick Isaiah (or Isiah, as it sometimes appears.)
I knew a black guy once whose name was Ivory. That always cracked me up, because he was very dark to be called that.

not to mention I wonder where she got the last name
Jackson-Lee ?

I don't care for her all that much..as a congresswoman, she is about as prejudiced as it gets. She wanted to have a federal inquiry into the judicial process in Texas regarding Joe Horn, when the grand jury down there had already made the call, so in effect, she was placing the welfare of the millions of Texans who had already decided by due process how they want their state to run, behind the welfare of two illegal Columbian nationals.

When some of her constituents gathered near her house to protest, she told one of them she "already knew what he thought," because he told her he had been in the south for generations.

One of my best friends in the freshly desegregated
sixth grade school I attended was named Elvin Sermons..and he taught me how to hambone.