Weather Man wrote:

If you're gonna get screwed by a Typhoon, might as well call it
LongWang.

Interesting concept that the name of something is related to the havoc
it causes.

Any guesses why all the "members" of Microsoft groups in the USA are
named after flying lizards?

(Don't take it personally, the Bharatians that can scrape through the
..net tend to call themselves large scorpions. So it's not a racial
thing.)

Moving on; the devastation from the Asian subcontinet seems to relate
the excesses of meteorology to the scatology of seismology fairly
recently:

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake has jolted south Asia on Saturday, and
thousands are feared dead or injured across Pakistan, Afghanistan and
India.

Part of a 10-storey apartment building collapsed in Pakistan's capital,
Islamabad, and dozens of people were feared trapped in the rubble.

Pakistan's private television news station, Geo, said it had received
unconfirmed reports that at least 25 people had died in the
Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir, where dozens of homes, schools,
mosques and government offices were damaged.

http://channels.aolsvc.co.uk/news/ar...08024209990001

Or do I mean eschatology?

Put it this way; the most dangerous country in the world has a
leadership selection system that would put a Republican idiot in the
Whitehouse in preference to a clever, manipulative, Democrat sleaseball
-no matter what the cost.

Already he has undone something like 100 years of goodwill and je ne
sais quoi. And that's just with God.

Millions depend on the relief efforts put out by the USA. Have they got
a hope, now?

Now see what you have done, Stanley!
Mm-Mm!!

That's another fine mess...