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Probably a bit too early to start planning a hurricane party

By adamg on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 4:59pm

Say hello to Irene.

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By O-FISH-L on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 5:14pm.

What's the August equivalent to the French Toast Alert?

By adamg on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 5:30pm.

Something alcoholic, I'm thinking.

By HenryAlan on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 7:26pm.

Hurricanes in Boston are always best spent drinking to candle light. Maybe a candle and Tequila alert?

By cycler on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 8:46am.

Are always best spent drinking to candlelight.

By Lecil on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 12:24am.

Everyone needs to rush out and buy tequila and limes!

By Chris Dowd on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 5:57pm.

Seems like that has been used as a name for hurricanes before- more than once.

By BostonUrbEx on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 5:59pm.

If it doesn't make landfall (or if it does with relatively little disturbance or destruction) then the name can be recycled. Andrew and Katrina, for example, will not be seen as a hurricane name ever again.

By Chris Dowd on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 6:01pm.

- I learned a little something today.

By anon on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 7:09pm.

Thanks for the info.
Piqued my curiosity and i found this:

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/grounders/retire...

By massmarrier on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 6:05pm.

This is always a strange choice, meaning "peace."

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 9:16pm.

Make waves, not rubble, Irene!

By BostonUrbEx on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 10:39pm.

Amen. Haven't been surfing yet this whole summer. I only get a few chances a year, and the only ones I've had so far, the seas have been flat! Booooo.

By Kaz on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 11:07pm.

Too loo rye ah!

By adamg on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 11:32pm.

When I thought of using that headline: Don't watch the video. Trust me.

By Kaz on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 11:36pm.

Video?

By adamg on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 12:07am.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLHUThBib8

By Ward8Mahatma on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 5:08am.

http://youtu.be/My2u2QyvyF4

I think Tom Waits's voice has greater apotropaic (!) value, but if you prefer something more traditional...
http://youtu.be/jj3s8qq3kU4

By John-W on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 12:14pm.

Not sure if it wards off evil, but it sure as hell wards off sobriety.

By Kaz on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 10:15am.

I thought you'd found something upsetting and disturbing about "Come on Irene" that I couldn't find.

What's wrong with Dexy's video? I like it and the song. :D

By adamg on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 10:23am.

I'd always pictured it as a sort of "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" scenario when it's actually portrayed as a bunch of street punks harassing some young mother pushing a stroller.

Yeah, I'm easily perturbed.

By John-W on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 12:29pm.

C'mon Eillen!
I mean who wouldn't swoon at this romantic line:
At this moment you mean everything
(But tomorrow you'll be pushing what might be my kid around in a carriage while I hang out airing my pits on the street corner harassing everyone that walks by...)
The only more romantic lyrics from a song...
You're all I got tonight ~R. Ocasek
or perhaps
All I need is someone to love
And tonight it's you ~C. Trick

Tugs at yer heart strings, I say.