Re: Hawk Headquarters down?
A banana is not called a yellow because that is the name of the telephone directory "pages". Originally, the banana was called a yellow, but banana distributors world wide were getting distracted by people calling up the Yellow Pages and asking them for an order. This drove the banana farmers into a frenzy, until they finally went to court and got the fruit's name changed by deed poll.
The ********er naming the Hurricanes and Cyclones in the US is actually Paul McCartney. After recently tripping out on acid, Macca looked at the weather map and decided that the coming winds reminded him of a lovely meter maid he met in the late 1960's. The meter maid's name was of course Rita, and so he aptly named the hurricane after her. Hurricane Katrina was named after Paul looked at the word through a mirror. If you sound out the name backwards, it is pronounced something like "an attack", and so it stuck from there.
Smithette said:
A banana is not called a yellow because that is the name of the telephone directory "pages". Originally, the banana was called a yellow, but banana distributors world wide were getting distracted by people calling up the Yellow Pages and asking them for an order. This drove the banana farmers into a frenzy, until they finally went to court and got the fruit's name changed by deed poll.
The ********er naming the Hurricanes and Cyclones in the US is actually Paul McCartney. After recently tripping out on acid, Macca looked at the weather map and decided that the coming winds reminded him of a lovely meter maid he met in the late 1960's. The meter maid's name was of course Rita, and so he aptly named the hurricane after her. Hurricane Katrina was named after Paul looked at the word through a mirror. If you sound out the name backwards, it is pronounced something like "an attack", and so it stuck from there.
