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08-23-2016, 11:27 PM
As Tropical Storm Gaston intensifies, so do Twitter's 'Beauty and the Beast' jokes
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It's truly a tale as old as time.
As a**ther tropical storm flares up, the inevitable flurry of tweets mocking its name makes its way into our lives. This week, Twitter users are deriving their latest weather-related meme inspiration from Tropical Storm Gaston.
The seventh tropical storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, which formed off the African coast on Monday after**on, just so happens to share a name with the memorably narcissistic Beauty and the Beast (http://mashable.com/category/beauty-and-the-beast/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)character, Gaston, and social media has taken full advantage of the circumstances.
SEE ALSO: Weather Channel turns to augmented reality for 2016 hurricane season coverage (http://mashable.com/2016/06/28/weather-channel-hurricane-season-surge/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/23/tropical-storm-gaston/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It's truly a tale as old as time.
As a**ther tropical storm flares up, the inevitable flurry of tweets mocking its name makes its way into our lives. This week, Twitter users are deriving their latest weather-related meme inspiration from Tropical Storm Gaston.
The seventh tropical storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, which formed off the African coast on Monday after**on, just so happens to share a name with the memorably narcissistic Beauty and the Beast (http://mashable.com/category/beauty-and-the-beast/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)character, Gaston, and social media has taken full advantage of the circumstances.
SEE ALSO: Weather Channel turns to augmented reality for 2016 hurricane season coverage (http://mashable.com/2016/06/28/weather-channel-hurricane-season-surge/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/23/tropical-storm-gaston/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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