Is Pluto Still a Planet?

[tribdog]

mine's not, don't know about yours

 

[EL]

You know Myanus is not a planet...

 

[DaveC426913]

It's a black hole.

 

[EL]

Since if you're trapped you won't get out...?

 

[JamesU]

It's a black hole.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Oops, there goes another rubber-tree plant.

http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/

 

[BobG]

Are we being just a bit geocentric about the Solar System?

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/jumpstart/archive/jumpstart-20070107.html

Such bad puns can't be ignored.

 

[D H]

"Plutoed" chosen 2006 word of the year

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/16405925.htm"

"Plutoed" was chosen 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting on Friday.

To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something" much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.​

 

[BobG]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/16405925.htm"

"Plutoed" was chosen 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting on Friday.

To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something" much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.​

That has such a nice ring to it, it really adds to the list of possible phrases:

"This is the hardest thing a manager has to do..."

"We've decided to use you as our on-call busboy." (How my first ever real job ended).

"You remember what happened to Pluto? When you think about it, that wasn't so bad, and now that you mention it..."

 

[verty]

So I guess that probe flying in space somewhere showing 9 planets is obsolete...