Smiley Anders for Sept. 19, 2008

• By SMILEY ANDERS
• Advocate columnist
• Published: Sep 19, 2008 - Page: 1B - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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Kristen Spring says, “I can’t help but wonder what the National Hurricane Center is thinking when they pick the names for possible hurricanes each year.

“Does Gustav sound like a nice person? No, he sounds like a bloodthirsty dictator, eager to leave a path of destruction.

“Katrina? I see an angry woman who likes to put you in your place when crossed (and not a good place).

“Ike? Well, we all know what Ike did to Tina, and I’m sure Houston will concur that it is not pretty.

“Now, if they consulted with some Louisiana folks for names, I bet our luck would change.

“Hurricanes T-Boy and Bubba would only bring good crawfish seasons and blow around stray Mardi Gras beads.

“And hurricanes Boudreaux and Thibodeaux would be too confused to cause any destruction, probably fizzling out in the Caribbean after getting lost.

“Say, doesn’t ‘Hurricane Smiley’ have a nice ring to it?”

Furry survivors
John White says tree cutters removing a tree on his house found a nest with three baby squirrels in it:

“They gave the squirrels to my daughter Kendall, who got a shoebox and tissue paper and made them a nest.

“We fed them some crackers and peanuts and let them play around.

“Then one of them started to chatter, and minutes later we heard a chatter coming from a tree close by.

“We knew it had to be the mother, so we put the shoebox next to the tree.