El Niņo... Al Nino...         Mar 22, 1998

This story was recently heard reported on the BBC in 
England.  It concerns the good old "El Niņo."  It's simply amazing 
how ignorant some people are... 

LadyHawke
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"A BBC Morning Report"	

It appears that a good number of Californians don't know what 
El Nino is all about. There happens to live in California a guy called 
Alfonso Nino, who appears in the telephone directory as Al Nino. 

Now, during the sequence of storms that hit the West Coast some 
weeks back, Al Nino received a string of insulting calls saying things 
like "Hey look Al Nino, you'd better stop messing around with the 
weather like this, stop these storms, you're ruining my crop, you carry 
on like this you're in real trouble"... etc. etc.  And when the storms 
stopped, a strawberry farmer called to thank him for having saved 
his strawberry crop and even sent his wife a bunch of flowers...  

El Niņo...  Al Nino...  What's the difference?
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El Niņo  (To the tune of "Windy")

Who's crashing in on all of the beaches,
Who's tearing down the hallways of life,
Who's ripping up our homes and our memories,
Everyone knows it's El Nino.

Who's made the mountains tumble down around us,
Who's caused the sea cliffs to slowly erode,
Who's raging waters have darn near drowned us,
We can be sure it's El Nino.
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~CHORUS~

El Nino is coming on strong,
Are you where you really belong?
El Nino has wings of steel,
Is this our last meal,
Is it for real?
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Who's tearing trees right up from the soil,
And covering the mountains with tons of snow?
Who's wreaking havoc, death, and destruction?
Yes my friends, it's El Nino!