From snowmageddon we have the media calling the latest storm a
snowicane? 
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Obama adding to our vocabulary??
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term popped into my head because "ghetto" and "geddon" sound so similar. I was thinking it would make a good new term for then next riot. sort of the way every thing involving conspiracy or fraud has now become a "-------gate" named after Watergate. From "gate" to "geddon" might be a welcome change.
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Sounds like the name of a fund raising cause. No...wait...they're already armed. 
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Smarter than I thought. Maybe he could vbecime a weaterman after leaving office. No, NOT the Bill Ayers kind of Weatherman.
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but whether he said it first or heard it elsewhere isn't known.
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Now we can have "gates" and "geddons", but may have to figure an appropriate distinction between them. Things like this catch on.
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they never get anything wrong do they?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/02/weve_been_challenged_-_to_a_sn.html
As far as we can tell, the name was coined on this blog on Feb. 3 when we solicited contributions for a creative storm name. The original suggestion appears to have come from a reader who comments under the alias of "300_sq_ft." Many other readers suggested it too, and it won the clear majority of votes in a poll we held on Feb. 4. The name spread widely from there via the pages of this newspaper and social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, until it eventually wound up in remarks by President Obama to the Democratic National Committee on Feb. 6. (I'll forgive the President for not attributing the moniker to this blog, but it better not happen again).
OR (from the comments on the same site):
Sorry CWG, Chuck Bell (NBC4) coined the term "Snowmageddon", on the air, before the December storm. Not that it lessens its amazing pun-like qualities.
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A most reliable source.
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....and I thought it was just more over-the-top reporting. I'm guessing Obama was being facetious, being that Chicago gets a lot more snow and nasty weather than Washington, DC.
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