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To: Carpe Cerevisi
Even my fourth grade schoolteacher from 1971 was afraid to bring up Uranus for fear of all the snickering from the immature boys.

Poor Uranus. It deserved a better name.

7 posted on 07/29/2021 11:39:18 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: SamAdams76
Poor Uranus. It deserved a better name.

I always say "Oo-ranius" after "Oorania," the muse of Astronomy. There is a beautiful stained glass window of her in the Allegheny Observatory, part of the University of Pittsburgh.

8 posted on 07/29/2021 11:56:43 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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