Flash Gordon, son. Some of us are obviously too old :)
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Flash Gordon, son. Some of us are obviously too old :)
He was a supposed quarterback, playing running back, in a sci-fi movie.
By the way, I remember tropical storm Gordon really well, but that was back in 1994. I remember the name because there was a geologist by the same name. The storm went through the Florida straights and dumped about 8 inches of rain on us. It then got out into the gulf, turned around, and came back across south Florida, dropping another 11 inches of rain. It then went up to North Carolina, turned into a hurricane, brushed the outer banks, dropped back to a tropical storm, then swept down across Florida for a third time, mostly staying north of us.
Are they really recycling the names so soon?
Honestly!? What are they teaching kids these days?!Quote:
I.... don't know who that is.
Flash Gordon is probably the single most cheesy and simultaneously single most brilliant film ever committed to celluloid. And it might help explain the location I've been sporting in my profile since I joined the forum :)
"DIVE!!"
1994 sounds right for the name Gordon, as that would be 24 years ago. They have a list of list of names that they cycle though, so the same name will show up, I believe, every 12 years (could be six years). In any case, if a storm is particularly destructive, the name is retired and replaced, so you won't have another Andrew, Camille, Katrina, etc...Quote:
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That earlier Gordon could have been retired for the amusement value, alone. Most tracks are just a curved line across some part of the South Atlantic. That one had loops, jitters, flips, and flops.
I do vaguely remember that they started cycling the names, now. I always wanted a Hurricane Zelda. We may end up getting that far down the list, one of these days.
It is a six year cycle. The current lists were created in 1979, when half the names used were to be associated with male names, where previously all the storms were generally associated with being feminine.
A good reference is this for the Atlantic storms.. I guess the latest replacements were Martin for Mathew and Owen for Otto for the two storm names retired from the 2016 season.
I use a Flash drive in my computer.
but I guess that's a different topic.... :eek:
I thought Adobe dropped Flash...
Nobody drops Flash. If they do he just gets Brian Blessed to catch him and fly him the rest of the way to Ming's Palace.
There was so much cheese in that movie, I was bound up for a week after watching it.
I really meant its not supposed to be HOT for 3 whole months, that is inconsistent with our consistent inconsistencyQuote:
This is EXACTLY how British summers are supposed to be. I.e. utterly inconsistent and conforming to no identifiable ruleset whatsoever.
That's the thing about random....sometimes it doesn't seem that way.
Liking a little Fibonacci Sequence...
I prefer focaccia. With a little dab of olive oil and a balsamic drizzle.
I have just come back from Italy and one of my favorite things to eat were the takeaway Panini, Ciabatta & Focaccia hot sandwiches delicious !
Panini, Ciabatta & Focaccia sound like awfully bland fillings for a sandwich. You wanna get a bit of cheese and pickle in there.
Weren't those Renaissance sculptors?
By the way, I wanted to try something out.
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Weren't those Renaissance sculptors?
By the way, I wanted to try something out.
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HA! That's the first time I've gotten a duplicate post in the one place where blather and duplication has little impact.
I remember Steve saying that code snippets seemed to be related to the duplication issue, yet the Post Race hasn't had duplication. I was thinking that might be because there were no code snippets since the vBulletin change. Now I add a snippet...and immediately get a duplication.
Of course, this leaves open the question as to whether or not I just poisoned the Post Race and we'll now see duplicates abound.
Poisoned Post Race! Oh my!