Let's rename Pluto

[Lantyssa]

Whatchu got against lesbians? 

[Der Helm]

Words fail me ...

[Morat20]

Words fail me ...

Yeah, me too. It wasn's so much as a torrent of possible responses as it was a wave of emotions shouting "OH JESUS CHRIST THAT'S AN AWESOME SETUP" that drowned out actual full sentences.

[Sky]

Whatchu got against lesbians? 

It was the japanimation, not the lesbianism!  

(sidestepping smarmy responses)

[Yegolev]

So if we Europeans at some time do not seem to like you Americans much it's not because of something as trivial as cultural imperialism or foreign policy. It's because you are responsible for the lack of schoolgirl lesbians and stuff here in Europe.

OH!

All is forgiven.

[Lantyssa]

You're no fun, Sky.  At least someone thought about running with it.

[Phildo]

I can't decide on a good emoticon for this discussion... can we get a pedobear with a butch haircut please?

[Paelos]

Whatchu got against lesbians? 

They don't change panda avatars enough.

[Simond]

Here I was figuring something closer to, "They didn't translate SM into German...

You'd be surprised. "Hmm, how shall we localise the Sailor Moon intro for the German market? I know - techno!" 

[Lantyssa]

They don't change panda avatars enough.

Happy now?

[Sky]

You're no fun, Sky.  At least someone thought about running with it.

Oh, I thought about it.

I had also just gotten out of a meeting about how we can't say things to people because of fucking liability, so if a woman is ignoring her screaming kids while she's being a myspace zombie, we pretty much just have to let it go. I fucking hate myspace zombies, especially those that ignore their kids. My favorite was one winner who turned her kid's stroller away, and when he didn't stop asking her stuff, pushed the stroller away. Another one (yesterday, cause of the meeting), the kid was saying "I love you mommy" and the woman actually looked away from myspace long enough to say "I'm not your fucking mommy"

Working with the public....it kills the soul a little each day.

Anyway, I do have something against lesbians. They don't like my penis! What's up with that? 

[Phildo]

Maybe there's something wrong with it, Sky?

[Lantyssa]

Anyway, I do have something against lesbians. They don't like my penis! What's up with that? 

Maybe if you partook of all those e-mails you thought were spam it would convince them of your manliness? They're really hints from 'lesbians'.

[Sky]

[Der Helm]

Maybe if you partook of all those e-mails you thought were spam it would convince them of your manliness? They're really hints from 'lesbians'.

But how do they know  

[HaemishM]

Maybe if you partook of all those e-mails you thought were spam it would convince them of your manliness? They're really hints from 'lesbians'.

But how do they know  

They buy the "Small Penis Database."

[WayAbvPar]

Worst job ever: Fact Checker, Small Penis Database.

[Lantyssa]

But how do they know  

All those porn sites y'all visit?  That causes the camera found in all monitors to turn on.  Your IP and vital statistics are then logged.  Most of it's handled by AI and recognition software, however verification and quality control are handled by trained professionals.  With much glee.

[HaemishM]

Being watched by trained lesbians while I browse pr0n?


THAT'S HOT. 

[Yegolev]

What is done with these logs?

[Der Helm]

What is done with these logs?

[Paelos]

They don't change panda avatars enough.

Happy now?

Very! 

[stu]

Sooooo, Pluto is a pluton?

http://www.iau.org/iau0601_Q_A.435.0.html

Q: Is a “pluton” a planet?

A: Yes.

 

Q: Is Pluto a “pluton”?

A: Yes.

 

Q: Is Pluto a planet?

A: Yes. In fact, Pluto’s large companion named Charon is also large enough and massive enough to satisfy the definition of “planet”. Because Pluto and Charon are gravitationally bound together, they are actually now considered to be a “double planet.”

 

Q: Is Pluto a dwarf planet?

A: If one describes any planet smaller than Mercury as a “dwarf planet”, then Pluto could be called a dwarf planet. Note that in terms of an IAU definition, Pluto is a “pluton.” “Dwarf planet” is simply a descriptive category like “terrestrial planet” and “giant planet.” None of these descriptive categories are formally defined by the IAU.

Let's just call it Bizarro.


edit to add:

Draft Resolution 5 for GA-XXVI: Definition of a Planet

[caladein]

Draft Resolution 5 for GA-XXVI: Definition of a Planet

That's a pre-convention draft, not the final resolution.  Note the Press Release's date of Aug 16.

Wiki links: 2006 Definition of a planet - Draft Proposal (what you quoted) and final definition (what they actually passed a week later).

[stu]

Thanks. The whole "plutons" thing threw me for a loop.

[Llava]

So they're thinking about giving in to the complaints and letting Pluto technically be a "planet", but not actually be called a "planet", because it's a "pluton" and that's different.  But, you know, it's still a planet.  Technically.

Why did the phrase "civil union" just pop into my head?

 

[Phildo]

"And here's YOUR water fountain, Mr. Pluto!"

[Llava]

It's going to be extremely inconvenient when we have to arrest Pluto for not moving to the back of the bus.

[Phildo]

DWP... Driving While Pluto!

[Llava]

Now we've got a lot of things, a lot of racism in the world right now
Who’s more racist? Dwarf planets or planets?
Dwarf planets....You know why? Cause we hate dwarf planets too
Everything planets don’t like about dwarf planets, dwarf planets REALLY don’t like about dwarf planets
There some shit goin on with dwarf planets right now
There's like a civil war goin on with dwarf planets
And there two sides....
There's dwarf planets, and there's plutons
And plutons have got to go
Everytime dwarf planets wanna have a good time
Ignorant ass plutons fuck it up
Can't do shit, cant do shit, without some ignorant ass pluton fuckin it up
Cant do nothin
Cant keep a disco open more than 3 weeks
Grand opening, grand closing
Cant go to a movie the first week it comes out
Why cause plutons are shooting at the screen
What kind of ignorant shit is that
Hay this is a good movie, this is so good i gotta bust a cap in here
Hay I love dwarf planets, but i hate plutons boy, boy i hate plutons
Boy I wish they'd let me join the International Astronomical Union
Shit I'd do a drive-by from here to Alpha Canis Majoris
I'm tired of plutons man
You cant have shit when you around plutons

[Sky]

Dwarf planets? Not pc. Girth-challenged planetoids.

[Tale]

It's back in the news, so [back when I posted this you could click here to vote in my poll].

[Sir T]

Reading this thread reminds me that the whole world is inside the orbit of Uranus.

[photek]

I would like to rename Pluto after the Norse deity, Loki. It has been deceiving us all this time and is surely a trickster. Loki makes sense. Compared to Dangleberry or Lesbian Sex(?).

[Brogarn]

This thread went all over the freakin place, didn't it? What's fun is watching it bounce back on top and right back off again. Or... orbiting around the topic. That's better considering the topic, I guess.