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Pluto's Demotion as Cautionary Tale [Lileks]
Newhouse News ^
| 8/30/2006
| James Lileks
Posted on 08/30/2006 10:06:47 AM PDT by Incorrigible
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Lots of good chuckles in there!
And for the folks that always reply with "Bush's fault", you got yours!
George W. Bush has now managed to lose one-ninth of the solar system.
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:07:15 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Incorrigible
They got Pluto. Now they're coming for Uranus.
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:07:48 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
To: Incorrigible; 70times7; aculeus; admiralsn; Aeronaut; alwaysconservative; AnnaZ; Archangel86; ...
To: Incorrigible
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:14:32 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: Incorrigible
Uranus brings up feelings of muted resentment, because we still remember pronouncing it the old, naughty way.
Ah yes, but in 2036 the name was changed to Urectum to put a stop to those silly jokes.
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:14:50 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: cripplecreek
That episode was just on Adult Swim last week!
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:15:58 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Incorrigible
Skeptics had pointed out that these things were manifestly impossible, but U.N. defenders asserted that the moral weight of the resolutions would be sufficient to compel the changes.Hey, just another day at the office for the UN.
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:16:08 AM PDT
by
siunevada
(If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
To: Incorrigible
There's always an interesting or new word to me in Lileks's columns.
This one was unfamiliar to me:
ga•votte [guh-vot]
–noun
1. an old French dance in moderately quick quadruple meter.
2. a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance, often forming one of the movements in the classical suite, usually following the saraband.
Also, ga•vot.
[Origin: 1690–1700; < F < Pr
gavoto a mountaineer of Provence, a dance of such mountaineers, appar. deriv. of
gava bird's crop (prob. < pre-L
*gaba throat, crop, goiter), alluding to the prevalence of goiter among the mountaineers]
To: Incorrigible
Dr. Farnsworth is hilarious.
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:20:37 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: Incorrigible
Damn, the Uranus jokes are gone, as are the Bush's fault jokes! :P
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:21:39 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: cripplecreek
To: Incorrigible
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:26:48 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Incorrigible
Fully half of Lileks' audience (liberals) will read this and find themselves unable to detect the humor in it.
And that makes it even funnier...!!!
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:27:46 AM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: Incorrigible
Hillarious! The politics of the planets.... As the Sol System Turns
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:33:42 AM PDT
by
M1Tanker
(Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
To: Tennessee_Bob
Especially the homosexuals. . .they're ALWAYS after Uranus. . .
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posted on
08/30/2006 10:51:02 AM PDT
by
Salgak
(Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
To: Incorrigible
In related news, the New Orleans Saints were declared to no longer be an NFL football team. They have been demoted to a "mass of lesser density" floating in league periphery.
To: Incorrigible
Pluto Was (is?) the only planet discovered in the USA. So now that it is not a planet it must be Bush's fault.
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posted on
08/30/2006 11:05:32 AM PDT
by
20yearvet
(they yell for more tests as long as its your money)
To: 20yearvet
Before Pluto was found, it was a search for Planet X. So Pluto has gone from Planet X to ex-planet in 76 years.
Fortunately Bush isn't running again in 2008, so he can't suffer any fallout from losing a planet on his watch. On the other hand, I've never understood how Clinton got re-elected--he didn't lose any planets, but The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes both ceased publication during his first term.
To: Constitution Day
Thanks so much for the ping! Bump for later reading and enjoyment!
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posted on
08/30/2006 5:48:22 PM PDT
by
alwaysconservative
(Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield..)
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