Tsunami In A Teapot

Hey, everybody, did you hear the news? We’re not allowed to use the term “Tsunami Tuesday” to describe next Tuesday’s primaries. Yes, apparently using disaster terms to describe non-disaster events is now offensive, and the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes are going to have to change their name any day now.

Please note: I don’t want to encourage anyone to use the term “Tsunami Tuesday.” — I doubt many people will — because it’s ugly-sounding. “Super Duper Tuesday” is a highly superior term, if only because it reminds me of Hersheypark. (Did you know: Hersheypark’s new rollercoaster Fahrenheit “was the first ever roller coaster to gather hype through a viral marketing campaign.” Put that in a record book!)

The author of the blog post is Sree “Tsunami” Sreenivasan, who is actually a professor at Columbia. He says we shouldn’t be upset about previous “Tsunami Tuesday” references, but says we should stop. (He’s also tremendously not over the top about his request, to his credit.) And, really, I have to agree with him on this point.

A friend at lunch pointed out we’d never say, “Rudy’s campaign fell like the twin towers.”

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