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How Did Uranus Get its Name?
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| 20 Mar , 2017
| Fraser Cain
Posted on 03/20/2017 5:03:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
[[How Did Uranus Get its Name?]]
A proctologist discovered it?
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posted on
03/20/2017 9:32:53 PM PDT
by
Bob434
To: hanamizu
I went through my whole youth without giving “You - RAIN - us” a second thought, as the pronounciation of Uranus. But now in the age of avalanching imbecility, I suppose keeping a straight face is a lost cause.
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posted on
03/20/2017 9:35:49 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
(I)
To: BenLurkin
When Hipparchos bend over one day in the Greek baths, a friend of his said, “I have the proper name for your new star/planet”, Your Anus”.
And the rest is history. Just the spelling has been changed to protect the innocent.
To: BenLurkin
So the Greeks had a rock group known as “Gaia and the Four Seasons”? What label did they record on, “Mercury”?
To: UnwashedPeasant
Heck, I just named mine after the sound it makes when you pull my finger. You know, BWA-A-AP!
(This thread is a great relief from Russians and way more intellectual.)
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posted on
03/20/2017 10:53:31 PM PDT
by
StAntKnee
(Add your own danged sarc tag)
To: dr_lew
Re Dr. Lew. How can you keep “a straight face” at all with a name like Lue when talking about Uranus?
Only the British can do that.
To: central_va
No, they both wipe out Klingons is the usual answer.
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posted on
03/20/2017 11:36:31 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: Bob434
A proctologist discovered it? How in hades does one decide to become a proctologist, of all medical fields? I'd bet most are rather thin, as I'm sure they skip lunch a lot. I could never consider the profession. I deal with enough a-holes everyday as it is now.
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posted on
03/21/2017 2:36:59 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Trump admin apparently playing "good cop, bad cop" with thug Putin (see my FR Home page))
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posted on
03/21/2017 3:54:04 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
To: BenLurkin
One astronomer is looking through the telescope and he says to the one standing next to him, "Look, a new planet!"
"My ass, Bob."
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posted on
03/21/2017 5:03:10 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: ameribbean expat
“March 13th, 1781, when William Herschel observed it from his garden house in Bath,”Garden house in Bath beats observing Uranus in a bath house in Garden...
You wins teh Thread!
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posted on
03/21/2017 5:04:20 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: rsobin
OMG...a black hole. And as every astrophysicist knows, black holes have no hair. (I think that was from Cal Tech physicist Kip Thorne's book on black holes, it was a technical term and quite a joke at the time...)
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posted on
03/21/2017 5:05:44 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: Albion Wilde; Viking2002
I’m just here for the comments. See my post #70 downthread.
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posted on
03/21/2017 5:07:31 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: ETL
lol- probably they either had cancer there themselves, or know some who did and want to help-
I tape my cell phone to my butt so i can hear all the buttholes i come in contact with
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posted on
03/21/2017 9:11:39 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/21/2017 9:22:11 AM PDT
by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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