And btw, if there is anything you need from Iran, I would go ahead and get it now.

Could we go to higher levels of bashing?

For instance the new planets, Ceres, Creonte y Xena, sounds like and intergalactic affair. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

I think I am the one who should be banned from this thread. Did I mention that I bought WW a ticket for Mexico yesterday? She leaves on Monday.

ouch!

WOW Pio. Hope it works for you.

Pio,

I figured she would go to Mexico before you went back to SA. She misses her "family". How are you going to handle it with DD's? I know their well-being is your top concern.

Now that Pluto has lost its designation as a planet, some important questions must be answered.

1. What on earth will astrologers do? Will they rewrite that portion of their "science" that is affected by Pluto? Or does Pluto retain its merit because a large block of spinning ice has the same effect as a spinning planet?

2. What about the Disney dog, Pluto? Will he be renamed? If Disney does rename that dog, it will destroy everything I have ever believed in. It may even shake my belief in Superman.

3. Will any astronomers loose their jobs now that there are 11% fewer planets to keep up with?

4. February 18 is Pluto Discovered Day. I am not making this up. Will we still celebrate Pluto's discovery?

6. Will we celebrate the day it was declassified?

7, Does Pluto still have the same weight now that it has been declassified? I worry about the wobble effect on the Earth.

8. Einsteinian gravity is defined as the unseen curvature of spacetime caused by the presence of matter. Now that the word is out on Pluto being ice instead of a planet, is the curvature of space changed?

9. Or do we relegate back to Newtonian mechanics? See number 8.

BTW, these burning questions kept me awake last night. I hope the scientists who declassified Pluto realize the gravity of their actions.

Yeah Todd,


...bet it kept them awake last night....

Nah, I bet they slept like babies.

My biggest concern, emotionally, is for Pluto the Disney dog. I mean, if he is renamed, then it is just wrong. I will be so hurt.

On a bigger scale, I worry about the poor astrologers. In fact, I have felt my personality changing today. Undoubtedly due to the fact that I no longer feel the "pull" of Pluto since it is no longer a planet. I can only wonder what kind of monster I will become. Poor Pluto. It was only 76 years old.

Since it took a board of astronomers to deliberate over what requirements there must be for a planet to be called a planet... I can only imagine how long that must have taken. How this helps us today, I think it will take even longer to figure that out.

As to the Disney Pluto, I would think you are safe because a Disney board would have to deliberate over what constitutes a cartoon character. There would be an issue in relating Pluto to Goofy... both being dogs, but I believe Mickey would be too distracted by Minnie to ever reach a defining conclusion... he being the chair of Disney... or is that honor now gone to Buzz Lightyear? Anyway, it won't change in our lifetime, I'm sure.

Shaden

I just got off the phone with an astrologer. She assured me my chart will not change. Still, I worry. I asked her how can my chart not change when I just lost a planet? Further, if Pluto remains in my chart, then there are other large "blocks of ice" that must affect my chart if Pluto does. She again assured me.

I swear I have changed since the declassification of Pluto as a planet. I am more emotional and much less logical. In the past, when I took one of those left/right brain tests, I pegged the left brain all the way to the left. I just took a test and I am now right brained.

I went shopping and bought some new clothes including some red shorts. I also started writing poetry. I am also starting to think I am a Democrat. Even a socialist. And, worse, I worry about global warming. I can also now speak French fluently. Finally, once a proud carnivore, I am now a vegetarian.

I just hope the scientists are happy with themselves.

Are you sure you're not standing in a mirror? These things can mix us up sometimes.

Tu parlez francais? Et tu bien? Mon Dieu, c'est terrible.

remember to wash your red shorts separate from your white... unless you are trying for pink.

I think I'm going to have a juciy t-bone tonight... too bad you're on a different program now.

Did the astrologer mention if this change affects our calendar? Maybe we are now living in the year 3013?

Don't worry too much about global warming... I've been in the ocean and its darn cold... could use a warm up.

Todd, you have become the perfect man - apart from the vegetarian thing. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Gotta run to another stoopid meeting.

Pio, will address your issue when I get back.

Yeah, and you guys laff it up about red shorts. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

LOL Shaden.

Pio, that's tough especially as you were mentally prepared for it a while ago and will need to psych yourself up again. It has to happen though.

My stoopid meeting was a 10 minute stoopid walk across campus and when I got there it was stoopid cancelled.

Excuse my French LOL

Bien sûr.
Comme plat principal, je voudrais le bifteck.

You know that steak was once a living thing. There are so many cows that their belching is polluting our planet and adding to the greenhouse effect.

I looked in the mirror but honestly my powers of logic have abandoned me. You would think I was married to my logic. ha ha.

Funny thing about the shorts. The more poems I write the pinker the shorts become. I have written fifty three poems already.

I don't even have to say it really do I? Of course, there's one vegan in the family. DS is vegan.

Logic is as unattractive as xenophobia.

BTW, I know you're teasing me about the red shorts but I find myself getting defensive on my H's behalf.

That is a VERY cool thing.

Now that I am right-brained and all, I feel your pain. I shall not mention it again.

Apparently, losing Pluto has affected others and they forgot about this thread. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Do you mean if they get a rash or something?