My. Very. Educated. Mother. Just. Sold. Us. Nine. ?????

[babylonsister]

M.V.E.M.J.S.U.N.?????

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
?????????



:shrug: :cry:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. Delete. I See Ya Got The Edit In. :o)

[babylonsister]

2. You're from the east coast; do you remember that?

I know, I corrected it.
Now what will we do? What will the schools do? It's just...wrong! :)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

3. Vaguely, Yes. How Bout:

Most.Vain.Ego.Maniacs.Just.Spout.Utter.Nonsense.

[babylonsister]

4. Bravo!

:silly: :applause: :woohoo:
:silly: :applause: :woohoo:

Now, how could anyone convince the Bored of Ed?

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Oh, how am I ever gonna remember that?

Especially when Library of Congress! French Canadian Bean Soup. The Fat man must shave before taking the hammer to the dentist.

[texpatriot2004]

5. Why ax Pluto now? nt

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Because if we didn't update our maps to more accurately reflect reality

we'd still be using something like this to get around the Eastern Seaboard:



That's how science works. New data, updated map.

[longship]

6. See, now it's even easier to remember.

albeit a little grammatically incomplete.

Actually, what were they to do? It was either exclude Pluto, or add a lot of planetoids which were clearly *not* the same class object as the rest. I'm reminded of the old Sesame Street song, "One of these things is not like the other."

I mean, Ceres? 2003 UB213 (or whatever they call it)? Charon? None of them even act like planets, have the same origin as planets, are as big as planets, etc. And think about this, with all the planets they're finding around other stars now, the astronomers thought that it might be better to nail this down once and for all.

It's really about naming. If there's going to be lots and lots of planets, they'd have to name them all. Smaller planetoids are named differently. By drawing the line where they did, they avoid the inevitable explosion of problems.

After all, can you imagine the acronym to remember 12 planets? Well, how about 20? Or 30? So, we can all be comfortable with the fact that 2003 UB213 will remain 2003 UB213. And our kiddies will be able to more easily learn the names of the eight major planets of our solar system. Now, if we can only get a grammatically complete acronym.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. I'm Personally Glad They Whacked Pluto. It Was A Wanna Be Planet From The

get go.

It took the scientific community a while, but I think they got it right.

[newspeak]

21. back in my college astronomy class

about twenty years ago, Pluto's planetary status was being questioned.

[dollydew]

27. Whacked?

What are ya? The planet Mafia? (Yes I'm joking).

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. I've long suspected Pluto was an imposter.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. My Vacuum Eats Mentos, JuJubees, Snickers, Umbrellas, Nougat. nt

I orginally had a much nastier word in there in place of "Vacuum", but decorum won the day with me, for once. :evilgrin:

Ye of sufficiently twisted mind can probably figure it out.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

12. My Visioned Eyes Marveled Just Seeing Uranus, Nancy

Sorry, putting the bong down now.

[DeSwiss]

13. BREAKING..... A PLUTO UPDATE......

NASAhas just announced receiving a direct feed from the Plutonians. The message was unexpected, but may be in response to their recent trashing by underemployed scientists meeting in Prague, Czech Republic. This group of scientists oversee the smaller, hard to see planets, asteroid belt lane disputes and the occassional comet. Yesterday, Pluto was demoted by them from their planet status. Some scientists were heard using derisive terms referring to Pluto as, "Pee-Wee", "Pebbles" and "Chip." Scientists are considering redesignating Pluto's status to ''space debris.''

The initial transmission seemed somewhat garbled and the White House isn't sure what to make of the message. ''Non-gay'' linquistic experts from the Army and Department Homeland Security believe that the words ''KISS and MY" figure prominently in the statement. They've repositioned the mirrors in the Hubble Space Telescope, aiming it directly at the President's Place in Plutonia-Plancia which appears to be a city filled with methane jaccuzis and tanning salons. Considering their distance from the sun, this makes perfect sense.

The space telescope was able to get a picture of the Plutonian President and members of her cabinet. This is the transmission that came in from Pluto 01:37:04 Greenwich Meridian Time:

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A spokesman for the White House quoted the President saying, "it's better progress than we're making in Iraq." President Bush's reaction when he received the message on behalf of Earth as the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet, is shown here.

[wavesofeuphoria]

14. I coulda told ya Pluto wasn't a planet ..

He's a dog

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

15. Link please.

[Bluebear]

16. My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nachos.

[Occulus]

17. Nothing.

My very educated mother served us NOTHING. Nothing at all. No greens, no fruit, no meat, n-o-t-h-i-n-g.

Not even gruel.

Bitch.

:silly:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

18. What about Jupiter, Kgfnally?

I think maybe you'd better just leave this stuff to the professionals.

[Fleshdancer]

19. My daughter is EXTREMELY upset about this

She's only 6 but she loves Astronomy. She can tell you the names of the planets, their order in relation to the sun and many other factoids. I broke the news to her as gently as I could that scientists no longer think Pluto is a planet and she's in deep denial. According to her, the scientists who decided this are stupid and our solar system NEEDS Pluto. I asked her why the solar system "needs" Pluto to be a planet and she's going to think about it and get back to me. It was cute watching her get so worked up about it. :D

[babylonsister]

20. Awww, so cute! I think I'm in denial, too!

:D

[hootinholler]

23. Well I was disappointed that they didn't call it a planetisimal.

I forgot the term they used, but it was lame. Maybe that's why I forgot it.

-Hoot

[MrCoffee]

22. Pizzas, dammit.

To hell with the IAU. Pluto is still a planet in my world.

[Ptah]

24. Tombstoned. Kaput. Gone.

Pluto:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5547304

[Zomby Woof]

25. We were never taught a mnemonic device for the planets

We just learned 'em as is. :shrug:

But hey, I will suggest this:

My Voluminous Excrement Mostly Just Smells Utterly Nasty

[deucemagnet]

26. delete

I was beaten to the punch. :(