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How's the hair these days, Ted?
Posted by: Eleanor | August 28, 2006 at 07:41 PM
I wanna be a student.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | August 28, 2006 at 07:42 PM
*ahem*
May I be the FIRST to point out that I am?
Thank you.
Posted by: Eleanor | August 28, 2006 at 07:42 PM
I like Mickey's dog too...
Posted by: Paris | August 28, 2006 at 07:46 PM
"I believe in Pluto"...ah-HAHHAHAHAHHAHA
Posted by: Betsi | August 28, 2006 at 07:47 PM
Pluto IS a planet.
So is Ceres. And Qaoaraahr (however you spell that), Xena and probably Chiron.
Stupid narrow-minded IAU beancounters.
Posted by: Clean Hands | August 28, 2006 at 07:56 PM
Ted is STILL getting mileage outta that pic, huh?
that was in '99 or 2000.
Posted by: rickh | August 28, 2006 at 07:57 PM
Got any good Horse Nebula T-shirts? I like horsies...
Posted by: Punkin Poo | August 28, 2006 at 07:58 PM
I belive in Pluto! *starts clapping*
Posted by: Sarah J | August 28, 2006 at 08:01 PM
Pluto is not a FAIRY, SarahJ.....it's a PLANET! Read the T-shirt. READ THE SHIRT, PEOPLE!!!!
Posted by: Punkin Poo | August 28, 2006 at 08:03 PM
I blame galactic warming.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | August 28, 2006 at 08:03 PM
Wow, Punkin. Pluto seems so much... larger on your shirt.
Posted by: Clean Hands | August 28, 2006 at 08:04 PM
Well it would help if they told us why Pluto is no longer a planet. As it is there's only rumor and inuendo.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | August 28, 2006 at 08:05 PM
My goal is to bring Pluto's plight to the forefront, CH.
Posted by: Punkin Poo | August 28, 2006 at 08:06 PM
I know pluto isn't a fairy, I was just hoping the clapping worked for planets too
Posted by: Sarah J | August 28, 2006 at 08:08 PM
eleanor: I too, am. I think. I think I am, therefore I must be. Unless I am delusional, in which case it wouldn't much matter what I thought. I am what I am. Whoops, that sounded pretty close to blasphemy... I am Sam. (No, that's the retarded guy) Sam I am. That's it. Green eggs. Peace.
Posted by: mudstuffin | August 28, 2006 at 08:08 PM
OK, so here's a partial explanation:
"Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
But who among us hasn't felt a little square from time to time? Huh?
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | August 28, 2006 at 08:10 PM
Nobel effort, dear Sarah......*wipes tear from eye*
Posted by: Punkin Poo | August 28, 2006 at 08:10 PM
BTW: The sirens stopped blowing about ten minutes ago - still no sign of wind. Everything in apple-pie order at the Chateau Mudstuffin.
Posted by: mudstuffin | August 28, 2006 at 08:11 PM
Lisa, I agree....dumb stoopid scientists...now little kids all over the world will be traumatized. I mean my @SS has sufficient mass for it's self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape...but do I WANT my @ss to be deemed a planet??? I don't think so!
HELLO????
Posted by: Siouxie | August 28, 2006 at 08:14 PM
The pinheads have been gunning for Pluto ever since its discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, passed away a couple of years back. (They didn't have the guts to do it while he was alive.)
Their contentions are manifold; they claim that Pluto's orbit is too far skewed from the rest of the planets, and that it's too close in size to other objects subsequently found in the same neighborhood.
The crux of the argument is that Pluto failed to sweep clear the region around its orbit, and so it's not really unique there. By way of comparison, the asteroid belt (of which Ceres is the largest member) is made up of a large number of bodies of similar size and composition; those objects have long been considered "minor planets," rather than full-blown members of the planetary family.
The definition that seemed to be gaining acceptance (until a last-minute switcheroo) would have based the definition on whether a body had enough gravitational pull to form at least a rough sphere, and whether it orbited the Sun. (As an example of a non-planet, our Moon orbits the Earth, which in turn orbits the Sun.)
Uh, anyone still awake and reading this?
Posted by: Clean Hands | August 28, 2006 at 08:14 PM
great news, mudster!
Posted by: Siouxie | August 28, 2006 at 08:15 PM
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
huh?? what??
Posted by: Siouxie | August 28, 2006 at 08:16 PM
Siouxie-*snork*
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | August 28, 2006 at 08:16 PM
mudstuffin
do you live in central oHIo?
'cause we had a tornado warning here in Columbus 'til 8 even tho' the "weather" was mostly south of us.
Posted by: rickh | August 28, 2006 at 08:17 PM
or my @ss, CH! I totally "get it"!
Posted by: Siouxie | August 28, 2006 at 08:17 PM
izzat the same Rick from iowa? How the hell r ya?
Posted by: ted | August 28, 2006 at 08:20 PM
CH-Are you saying that Pluto is in the age of Aquarius? If so, I hear ya dude!
Punkin-Let Sarah J clap if she wants to. We want to encourage all forms of ProPlutonion expression. :D
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | August 28, 2006 at 08:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS! - OT
U.S. BEATS JAPAN 2-1 TO WIN LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES
YAY U.S. LITTLE SLUGGERS!!
Posted by: Siouxie | August 28, 2006 at 08:21 PM
In other news...Paris Hilton launches off into space and gives us a view of Heranus...
BOT - sorta!
Posted by: Siouxie | August 28, 2006 at 08:23 PM
Belated *wave* to El and a YAY for being first!
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | August 28, 2006 at 08:25 PM
My very easy-going mother just served us nine... WHAT? NINE WHAT?!!
Posted by: Nebbish | August 28, 2006 at 08:27 PM
maybe we should run a little contest to see how best to make kids remember the 8 planets....
Posted by: ted | August 28, 2006 at 08:31 PM
and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.
So...because it's not good at housekeeping, it got kicked out of the plantetary fraternity?
Oh, and it was explained to me this weekend that the memory hook now is:
My very educated mother just sent us newspapers.
Posted by: slyeyes | August 28, 2006 at 08:40 PM
....and before "they" go kicking anyone out of the planetary fraternity, can't they make Uranus change its name? And the only reason I want that done is because at my age, I feel silly when I giggle like a 12 year old when Uranus comes up.
er....uh.. oh well. You know what I mean.
Posted by: slyeyes | August 28, 2006 at 08:42 PM
Hey, Ted Hobbity-Grabbity is back! Where ya been, Ted? Campaigning?
Pluto will ALWAYS be a planet to me. I don't care what those so-called "scientists" say. Hmph!
Posted by: Suzy Q | August 28, 2006 at 08:45 PM
yeah Ted, it's me. older balder and fatter
but still me.
Posted by: rickh | August 28, 2006 at 08:45 PM
Good point sly. Ted, maybe renaming the planet Uranus should be part of the contest. That is, if everyone can stop giggling long enough to think.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | August 28, 2006 at 08:45 PM
Many
Very
Juvenile
Mutant
Squirrels
Utterred
Nothing
?
Posted by: Jollymon | August 28, 2006 at 08:45 PM
Did I spell utterred right?
It didn't look right with one R.
Doesn't look right with two T's either.
*off to watch the 30 second hurricane update*
Posted by: Jollymon | August 28, 2006 at 08:48 PM
Wow. A 30-second hurricane. They could have used one of those last year.
Posted by: slyeyes | August 28, 2006 at 08:50 PM
Whew.
Okay, it's moved 15 feet northwest. So I'm still good.
Posted by: Jollymon | August 28, 2006 at 08:50 PM
It's facism...facism, I tell ya.....
First, they came for Pluto...
Next, they'll come for Uranus...
Posted by: AFKAT | August 28, 2006 at 08:53 PM
Welcome, mud. :)
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | August 28, 2006 at 08:53 PM
c'mon, Punkin, Lisa and the rest of you, you know you want to. ;)
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | August 28, 2006 at 08:57 PM
Okay, I hosed it up.
Many very EAGER mutant junvenile squirrels utterred nothing.
Still doesn't look right.
Undid nuts?
Posted by: Jollymon | August 28, 2006 at 09:06 PM
I just found the perfect shirt.
Posted by: Sarah J | August 28, 2006 at 09:09 PM
Jollymon, I believe it's "uttered"
I think
Posted by: Siouxie, Blogging in the Cone of Death | August 28, 2006 at 09:11 PM
? do we care?
Posted by: MoFaux | August 28, 2006 at 09:21 PM
Interestin' (to moi ownself, NEway) quote: ... Pluto was spotted in 1930. ...
I did not know that. I thot he wuz always that sorta pukey yellow-brown color ... merely, more knowledgeable, now ...
Posted by: O. the U(manity) | August 28, 2006 at 09:23 PM
Make very egregious mullets? Just say utterly no!
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | August 28, 2006 at 09:27 PM
Sigh . . even though it's not the one my husband created, one of my favorite CafePress Pluto shirts proclaims: "My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Up Naked." I had to snork. If anyone's interested in the shirts we did, check out classicgeek.com.
Posted by: BLT | August 28, 2006 at 09:28 PM
BLT, *snorked* binary choices at above site.
why make life tougher than it is, right?
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | August 28, 2006 at 09:33 PM
Shirt??? (Sarah J)
Now THIS is a shirt
Posted by: AFKAT | August 28, 2006 at 10:00 PM
AFK, got an error msg. sorry.
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | August 28, 2006 at 10:01 PM
Access denied?
Must be in metric ... or Canadian coin ... (we're all a little Looney here ...)
Posted by: O. the U(manity) | August 28, 2006 at 10:02 PM
Strange, it worked for me me when I clicked on it in the thread.
Ah, well, it was just a pic of a white T-shirt that said:
First, they came for Pluto
Then they came for for Uranus
Posted by: AFKAT | August 28, 2006 at 10:08 PM
*reaches up and removes one "for" from the above post*
Posted by: AFKAT | August 28, 2006 at 10:09 PM
O the U welcome
Posted by: Wyo Cowboy | August 28, 2006 at 10:11 PM
Absolutely, Wyo!
My hubby is a self-proclaimed math geek - he came up with most of the ideas for that site, including the "binary choices," although I helped with the execution of several. "Software problem" is all mine . . .
We want Pluto back - our son, who started 1st grade today, is both proud to know a science trivia fact that most of his peers don't and yetweirded out that a planet can be reclassified. My mom was teasing him that he'll have to rewrite the Blue's Clues Planet Song, and he told her with great seriousness that he didn't think that was possible.
Posted by: BLT | August 28, 2006 at 11:06 PM
*clicks Wyo's link*
*feels really really young*
*thinks it's funny that so many bloglits have kids older than Sarah J*
Posted by: Sarah J | August 29, 2006 at 12:17 AM
Those are not planets, they're stars!
BTW, do you think she'll sell those shirts for sea shells, seeing as how she's not selling T-shirts for the money?
Posted by: Poop Dogg | August 29, 2006 at 03:43 AM
sarah j makes joke
at expense of old bloglits
her time is coming
it was yesterday
when i fell asleep i was
a child. today also.
i passed a milestone.
i no longer look like him
- my wedding photos
Posted by: mudstuffin | August 29, 2006 at 08:28 AM
Pluto has feelings too.......
Posted by: Chaz | August 29, 2006 at 08:39 AM
mud' -
I wuz gonna say somethin' similar (tho less articulately than your post, I'm sure) and then I wondered (to give a really young person the benefit of doubt) whether she meant funny "ha-ha" or funny "odd" or funny "wierd" ... so I din't ...
Posted by: O. the U(manity) | August 29, 2006 at 08:43 AM
O: I had similar thoughts about our physical appearance. Is it just funny or is it ?funnny?
Posted by: mudstuffin | August 29, 2006 at 08:58 AM
All I'm going to say is...we were ALL really really young once as well...
Newsflash: You don't stay that way forever!
also, I respected my elders....
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 09:10 AM
Wyo - you're getting quite a collection of bloglits there.
Posted by: kitten | August 29, 2006 at 09:20 AM
Is the weather getting you a little fiesty, Siouxie? I've always believed you are only as old as you feel - sometimes 20, sometimes 100
Posted by: kitten | August 29, 2006 at 09:25 AM
Hey, good morning kitten!
Nah...just giving out a little wisdom...
I don't think of age as a problem :) you're right..it's really how you feel.
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 09:29 AM
Siouxie....I'm watching the news..Looks like Ernie is headed your way! Get extra water wings and hydraulic sandwiches. Praying that all is well and safe.
Posted by: Jazzzz | August 29, 2006 at 09:29 AM
Thanks, Jazzzz!
It won't be too bad though. I'm all set and my house is VERY safe - got those accordion shutters that go up in 10 mins if need be.
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 09:37 AM
Sarah J must be in High School 'cause I just turned 21 last week.
Mornin' bloglits.
Posted by: blurk | August 29, 2006 at 09:57 AM
Morning, blurk!
That would make me...uh...a lot younger too!
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 10:06 AM
hmmm...blurk, how do you feel about older women? I'm just slightly older than 21
Posted by: kitten | August 29, 2006 at 10:11 AM
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 10:12 AM
sigh
Posted by: kitten | August 29, 2006 at 10:12 AM
Hola everybody. perhaps a national day of mourning for pluto would be in order. it would revolve around a worldwide concert. people could share their memories of pluto. and there's a big sale at barnes n nobles on books about the solar system. i am crushed, you know.
Posted by: queensbee | August 29, 2006 at 10:14 AM
Like the song says, kitten:
Older women know just how to please a man
Posted by: blurk | August 29, 2006 at 10:18 AM
we do?? oh yeah...or so I've heard...:P
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Siouxie - it must come from our fondness of younger men. They do motivate, you know.
Posted by: kitten | August 29, 2006 at 10:34 AM
ummm...yeah...motivate *eg*
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 10:36 AM
I am officially changing professions. I am no longer a military cop-type dude.
I am now gonna be a motivator.
Posted by: blurk | August 29, 2006 at 10:41 AM
And when will you be conducting motivational type seminars, blurkie??
just askin...
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 10:42 AM
Are these hands-on seminars?
Posted by: kitten | August 29, 2006 at 10:47 AM
Semenars to begin immediately. Did I misspell that?
Posted by: blurk | August 29, 2006 at 11:03 AM
I apologize to the blog.
That was just bad.
Posted by: blurk | August 29, 2006 at 11:04 AM
Do we need to warn Mary again??
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 11:09 AM
... um ... it wuz so bad, it wuz good ... merely ... smirkin' knowingly ...
Posted by: O. the U(manity) | August 29, 2006 at 11:11 AM
blurk - that was awful!!!!!
Posted by: kitten | August 29, 2006 at 11:17 AM
I said I was sorry!
*fires up the hellbound bus again*
Posted by: blurk | August 29, 2006 at 11:19 AM
it's ok blurk...I'm riding shotgun on that bus...
It's getting HOT in here!
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Don't know what Sarah J's talking about, I think you all look great!
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | August 29, 2006 at 05:06 PM
Thanks Lisa!! I think so too :)
Posted by: Siouxie | August 29, 2006 at 06:56 PM