Winter storms will now have names (on the Weather Channel).

[telemann]

Comments

[twoeleven]

"Our goal is to communicate the threat and the timing of better attract viewers and advertiser dollars by trying to add sensationalism to the significant impacts that accompany these events."

[telemann]

LOL.

I wonder if they will have a copyright/trademark on the names too.

[barbarienne]

Seriously? They clearly got a die-hard geek to come up with these names!

I mean, really, "Orko"? Oh, sure, they can claim he's a Basque thunder god, but we all know they were thinking of the irritating character from Masters of the Universe.

[telemann]

Hehe.

[verbophage]

Hm, Jove and Zeus are the same character (Roman and Greek names) and somehow Euclid and Helen look out of place. And never mind "Orko" when "Ukko" is in there too, someone seems to have not enough imagination...

[golconda2]

And it's GandAlf, you twits...

[telemann]

Different character. ;)

Gandolf: A character in a 1896 fantasy novel in a pseudo-medieval countryside.

[drivebyluna]

I am disappointed that Q is not from Star Trek.

[barbarienne]

Maybe they didn't want to admit it. The folks at Paramount would have a much better case for trademark infringement than a bunch of historians.