Planetary Downsizing

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ichabod @ Aug 24 2006, 01:20 PM) [snapback]308853[/snapback]</div>

A new name should come with the new designation. They have seven to choose from: Sleepy, Grumpy, Dopey....

 

I always knew that Popeye hitting him would drive him out of the solar system. At least Olive Oyl is saf - what's that? It's Pluto, not Bluto? Oh. Never mind...

 

LMAO, this thread is fantastic!! :lol: :lol: Just what I needed for a mid-afternoon pick me up at work.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ichabod @ Aug 24 2006, 10:20 AM) [snapback]308853[/snapback]</div>

Something about the word "probe" that hits my funny bone just right. :lol: :lol: Kinda like what happened when I spied the word "cling-on" in the following article which I read this morning:

" For decades, it's been confused with a cartoon dog and ridiculed as a puny poser. Now Pluto, the solar system's consummate cling-on, has suffered its worst humiliation: It's not even a planet anymore."

Full Article

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pale Alien @ Aug 24 2006, 09:28 AM) [snapback]308819[/snapback]</div>

I was going to cleverly retort, "Why not, it's a Mickey Mouse planet anyway," but I can't do that any more, 'because it ain't a planet. :huh:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(aaf709 @ Aug 24 2006, 01:42 PM) [snapback]308992[/snapback]</div>

Could we call it a Minnie planet?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rancid13 @ Aug 24 2006, 03:36 PM) [snapback]308991[/snapback]</div>

I think a worse humiliation would be a barium enema.

Just ask Uranus.

 

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More about the Disney Vault from Saturday Night Live: TV Funhouse - Disney Vault on Transbuddha (marginally worksafe)

 

When I was a kid, I was taught a memory aid for the sequence of the planets. It was My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles. Now it'll have to be something like My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Necturines.

 

Poor Pluto. I always did have a soft spot for the underdog, and for the eccentric. I hope this has nothing to do with his co-orbiting 'partner'.

 

Has anyone considered the possible ramifications of this? Suppose the inhabitants of Pluto are angered that we have dissed their (dwarf) planet, and decide to invade us?

 

Did you see the latest Tom the Dancing Bug?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ Aug 26 2006, 08:21 PM) [snapback]309939[/snapback]</div>

Oh no! I bet they have lots of plutonium!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pale Alien @ Aug 24 2006, 07:10 PM) [snapback]309043[/snapback]</div>

I for one am glad to get rid of Pluto! One less planet to remember. Now when are they going to change the name of Uranus so we can end that horrible joke! :angry: I propose they change the name to Urectum!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(theforce @ Aug 28 2006, 12:50 AM) [snapback]310433[/snapback]</div>

Uranus is correctly pronounced "YOOR-un-nus"- well, at least according to those guys who say who's a planet and who isn't.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ Aug 28 2006, 12:37 AM) [snapback]310444[/snapback]</div>

Don't spoil the fun. Next you'll demand we correctly pronounce Halley's comet.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Aug 27 2006, 10:44 PM) [snapback]310446[/snapback]</div>

In the hallowed halls of my astronomy department I heard the new rallying cry:

"Down Pluto, Up Uranus!"

But nobody pronounces Newton's pal's name right: it's HAL-lee, (from the valley.)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Alnilam @ Aug 28 2006, 06:15 PM) [snapback]310791[/snapback]</div>

Blame Bill and the Comets.

(1, 2, 3 o'clock.....)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Aug 28 2006, 01:44 AM) [snapback]310446[/snapback]</div>

Sorry about that!
I'm looking through my telescope, and I must say, I can see Uranus clearly tonight!