Pluto demoted

[Burt]

Just heard about the news about Pluto, it's been demoted fom Planet, to minor Planet. Our solar system not only has 8 Planets! I suppose it's not that important, it's only a name, but it's kinda sad. I still think it would have been better if they had gone for the Pluto/Charon binary planet idea. A binary system right in our own neighbourhood!

[Nate the Great]

Hey, I'd rather have eight planets than twelve (or rather about fifteen when the whitecoats pin down the sizes and orbits of some of the asteroids).

Anyone in favor of the name Xena for our favorite tenth planet candidate?

[PointyHairedJedi]

At last, Gustav Holst can rest in peace.

[mark726]

My Very Educated Mother Just Baked Us Nine....

NINE WHAT?! Seriously, I'm a bit bummed out by that. ...Or it could be that school just started.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Just Baked Us Nothing seemed to be the winner in the Fark thread.

[Chancellor Valium]

Just Busted Us Nincompoops?

I think the new thing currently named "Xena" by silly people should be called maybe...Mondas?

Mwahahaha!

[Burt]

I still think that Mimas should be changed to 'The Death Star'. I mean look at it!
What next? An Enterprise shaped asteroid?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I took an astronomy class in undergrad several years ago, and the prof mentioned then that Pluto had been demoted to a Kuiper Belt Object, part of a cloud of chunky bits leftover from the formation of the solar system. It makes sense, really. Given the highly elliptical and inclined nature of its orbit, it probably didn't form from the planetary accretion disk that gave rise to the other eight planets.

Disclaimer: I am not an astronomer, and I don't even play one on TV. I haven't kept up with all the semantic redefinitions over the years, so absorb this information at your own risk. That is all.

[Zeke]

Oh sure, Pluto doesn't get to be a planet anymore, but we still let Rhode Island be a state?

[Nate the Great]

Zeke, I'm afraid that I'm in full agreement. It's foolish to have all of those itty-bitty states remain separate purely for historic reasons. If anything New York City should be one state and the rest of the Northeast should be another.

[Chancellor Valium]

I disagree. Hypocrisy and non-standard standards for all :D

After all, Newfoundland was its own *nation* until the 1920's (Or was it the thirties?)...

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Wiki says that it became a Dominion in 1907 and then reverted to colonial status in 1934 because of financial insolvency or something. It became our tenth province in 1949.

/The more you know

[Chancellor Valium]

Interesting.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

But pointless.

[Chancellor Valium]

Pointless is good.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Hear that, PHJ? *g*

[Chancellor Valium]

Just for that:

Who are you?


WHO ARE YOU?!

[PointyHairedJedi]

Hear that, PHJ? *g*
I HEAR ALL.

[Nate the Great]

Hey Sa'ar, thanks for the "The more you know" gag. It reminds me of a similar joke from Bob and George. "Whose Line" points for anyone who knows where the similar gag comes from.

[e of pi]

Hey Sa'ar, thanks for the "The more you know" gag. It reminds me of a similar joke from Bob and George. "Whose Line" points for anyone who knows where the similar gag comes from.
Ummm...Who's Line is It Anyway?

[Celeste]

The only parody of "The more you know" that I can think of atm is Family Guy's. :P ::chuckles while thinking about it::

[Zeke]

Hey Sa'ar, thanks for the "The more you know" gag. It reminds me of a similar joke from Bob and George. "Whose Line" points for anyone who knows where the similar gag comes from.

"In other words, we can't win, and probably neither can Flame Man?"

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Who are you?

I am Grey. I stand between the darkness and the light.

[Celeste]

(Back on topic) This (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060827) is a good way to solve the problem I think. :D

[PointyHairedJedi]

It's a little ridiculous really. It's all essentially semantics, so why the fuss?

[Chancellor Valium]

I am Grey. I stand between the darkness and the light.

*BZZZT!* Incorrect! Titles and meaningless gibberish! Who are you?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

*BZZZT!* Incorrect! Titles and meaningless gibberish! Who are you?

Somebody needs a nap.

[Chancellor Valium]

BZZZT! Not an answer! Who are you?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

You're not so tough without your fancy cane.

*steals cane*

[Nate the Great]

You know, for allegedly being BnG freaks, you guys forget punchlines easily. Dave Anez used the "The More You Know" gag (complete with the shooting star logo) right after someone was creeped out by the homosexual tendencies of Alternate Bob and Top Man. Mega Man defended them with a pseudo-philosophic rant and the shooting star logo.

[Zeke]

All I know is I'm right (http://bobandgeorge.com/Archive/Apr06.php?date=17). You may also be right, but I don't remember that one, and Mega Man defending them sounds odd.

[Nate the Great]

Okay, I have no idea if I'm going senile or not, but I remember that, even if I can't find it in the archives. I've looked, but it appears that Top Man's appearances in the comic are limited enough to allow for a complete search.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

You know, for allegedly being BnG freaks, you guys forget punchlines easily.

Who're you calling a freak? :P I was quoting Family Guy (but I couldn't bring myself to type "Canada Sucks!"), or even the original NBC ad campaign.

[Chancellor Valium]

You're not so tough without your fancy cane.

*steals cane*

*Uses force lightning* BZZT! BZZT! BZZT! Punishment for arrogance almost equalling my own! Who are you?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me.

Nice to meet you. Who're you?

[Chancellor Valium]

I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me.

Nice to meet you. Who're you?


{pause, followed by funny lights and wyrd noises}

Yes.

[PointyHairedJedi]

It's a ferret!

[Chancellor Valium]

It was a ferret.

Now it's an award-winning pizza restauranteur...

It went to Rome with its cousins...

[PointyHairedJedi]

It would be a real shame if there wasn't a Piazza Pizza somewhere in Italy.

[Chancellor Valium]

There is. It may not be this Italy, but in an Italy somewhere, there will be a Piazza Pizza.

Most likely it's in the one controlled by an oligarchy of pun-obsessed, nut-allergic gibbons...