What a headache for us Scorpio’s…..Pluto is no longer a planet? Lord of the Underworld is just some ice packed asteroid in orbit of the Sun? So we don’t have a planet to go with our sign?
Seems like the recent decision to de-classify Pluto as a Planet has hit a nerve in many people. I’m still looking around for the planet that goes with my sun sign.
"I represent the smallest planet - Attorney in this journey versus those who tried to ban it"
"If you don’t agree go see Interplanet Janet - The sun is a star like Pluto is a planet"
In light of the recent decision by atronomers that Pluto is no longer a planet, it’s high time revive this rallying cry from the Skinnee J’s. Pluto is a Planet:
"When I hear any mention of planet Pluto, the 2 Skinnee J’s Pluto is a planet circulates through my head the rest of the day. The J’s played twice at my bar while touring in support of Super Mercado during the late 1990’s and while they are no longer touring the music retains a timeless quirkiness that still goes out to all the kids with Coke-bottle glasses. Deeper than GottaBook’s A Pluto Poem, Pluto is a Planet circulates geek culture with slick rhymes in a way no one attempted before or since.
Go track down a copy of the 2 Skinnee J’s Super Mercado and if you’re still a believer help them spread the word - Pluto is a Planet .
And this poem summarizes Pluto’s Plight:
"THE PLANETARY WEEK IN REVIEW
by Gregory K.Poor Pluto.
Got the boot-o.
Still searching around for a planet - OK, maybe we can go back to using Mars. I remember "Mars, the Angry Red Planet". Hope that’s not the planet that goes with Scorpio. Maybe we just need to keep the asteroid Pluto and say that asteroids can be as important as planets……
B.L. Ochman, as usual, has an answer in the form to contest:
Post-Pluto Mnemonic Contest Winners Announced
When Pluto was officially kicked out of the solar system yesterday, publishers of suddenly outdated science textbooks, encyclopedias, and posters of the solar system undoubtedly licked their chops. Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan decided to hold a competition for a Post-Pluto meomonic for the planets.
The winner: My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums.( Josh Mishell)
Great runners-up include:
Many Very Earnest Men Just Snubbed Unfortunate Ninth Planet (Dave Child)
"My vision, erased. Mercy! Just some underachiever now." (Delia, as spoken by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh)
I think I need to take a break from this planet thing……Maybe next year, the astronomers will change their mind and make Pluto a planet again, then they’ll have to update all the text books AGAIN. Maybe we should just wait 5 years and see if they change their mind.
