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To: PatrickHenry; longshadow
[... called the Juno V by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency. It was later renamed the Saturn in February 1959 ...]

Good thing they stopped renaming the thing. One more change in the direction they were going and it would have been embarrassing.

I believe you're talking out Uranus.

Meanwhile, from a "Futurama" episode:

Fry: Did you build the Smellescope?

Farnsworth: No, I remembered that I'd built one last year. Go ahead. Try it. You'll find that every heavenly body has its own particular scent. Here, I'll point it at Jupiter.

[Fry sniffs.]

Fry: Smells like strawberries.

Farnsworth: Exactly! And now Saturn.

[Fry sniffs.]

Fry: Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great! Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus.

[He laughs.]

Leela: I don't get it.

Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.

Fry: Oh. What's it called now?

Farnsworth: Urectum.


39 posted on 01/08/2006 1:01:38 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon

The astronauts didn't mind traveling on the Saturn, but taking a ride on something named Uranus ... somehow it's not appropriate for fighter pilots.


40 posted on 01/08/2006 1:06:33 PM PST by PatrickHenry (ID is to biology what "Brokeback Mountain" is to western movies.)
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