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To: apillar

‘Your anus’ or ‘Urine-us’........neither works well. Who named this planet???


33 posted on 10/19/2017 7:18:55 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: originalbuckeye
William Herschel, 1781.

Named for the Greek god of the sky. Uranus mated with his mother Gaia, who gave birth to 12 titans, 3 cyclopses and 3 giants with 100 hands each. (That's the sort of thing that can happen in cases like that.)

45 posted on 10/19/2017 7:35:46 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Dump Flake)
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