Give Me Back My Pluto!

08-24-2006 Give Me Back My Pluto!

My entire life I've been confident in the fact that there are nine planets in the solar system. I would even recite the rhyme: My Very Elegant Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Porcupines, representing Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Your Anus, Neptune and Pluto. Well now, thanks to orbitism (discrimination based on orbit pattern), poor Pluto is no longer in my rhyme. What will my very elegant mother sit upon? Nine what? It doesn't even make sense anymore! Needless to say my confidence in this solar system is shattered. Without Pluto classified as a planet, I just don't know how I'll get up every morning. It's time to move to Proxima Centauri and get out of this orbitist solar system. Who's with me?

User Comments for 08-24-2006:

This looks like a job for the Silverhawks!
Stavos

Well, last I heard it was still in debate -- and that if they did still classify Pluto as a planet then we'd end up counting an additional dozen or so new ones as well. Imagine trying to remember THAT in schoool. Ugh...
E1

You suck at the interweb http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html
Stavos

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/24/148245&from=rss
Stavos

I hate Pluto.
Grumpy Smurf

Warm up the ship Brad.... let's get the &#$% outta this crappy solar system
Excelcier

That wasn't a rhyme. Just a mnemonic device. And your mother can still sit on "Nien". My very elegant mother just sat upon NEIN!.
gabe

What has Pluto done for us lately. NOTHING! It's! nothing but a small dead, out of orbit, dwarf planet!
KevinTM

Sailor Moon isn't right anymore! What happens to sailor pluto?!
Lunar

This is what Pluto will do for us.
Stavos

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