Interesting - Earth Has a Second Moon?

[eclark1894]

Actually, it's 8 or 9, since Pluto is the only body in dispute. Personally, I think it should be grandfathered in. Everyone considers all the other bodies to be dwarf planets.

 

[Lorraine]

this one I don't think I've ever heard.

Ya know...Kiwis

 

[Miss B]

All too true.

 

[quietrob]

I had a scottish girlfriend, who once answered "Polly's your aunt." I asked her exactly just who this Polly is.

"Bob's sister, of course," she answered with a straight face. I could listen to that scottish accent for hours.

I wonder if anyone really knows!?

 

[quietrob]

Actually, it's 8 or 9, since Pluto is the only body in dispute. Personally, I think it should be grandfathered in. Everyone considers all the other bodies to be dwarf planets.

Grandfathered in? That might be the answer yet. Everyone would be happy, except for a handful of planetary scientists that can't give us a straight answer. I'm almost ready to take on Doctor Degrasse. Do I dare? He is well known for kicking ass on Twitter.

 

[3dcheapskate]

The English version is theatre, and I've actually seen it used here in the States. Why I don't know, as to me the ending looks like a French spelling, not English. ~shrugs~

Etymology's a wonderful thing - I recall that most English words come either from Latin/Greek roots by way of Old/Middle French, or from old Germanic. Except for the ones that don't.

 

[3dcheapskate]

Grandfathered in? That might be the answer yet. Everyone would be happy, except for a handful of planetary scientists that can't give us a straight answer. I'm almost ready to take on Doctor Degrasse. Do I dare? He is well known for kicking ass on Twitter.

I thought the handful of planetary scientists did give a straight answer (resolutions 5a and 6), albeit a rather unpopular one among Plutists*.And as Zaarin said back in post 22 "The definition of a planet is always going to be arbitrary...". Pluto's still Pluto, no matter what arbitrary box you try to squeeze it into.

A couple of years ago I wrote a short story "The Naughty Elf Present". Shortly after reading the comments about Pluto's rebranding on this thread I reposted the story here at Hivewire, because I think Santa knows more about space stuff than a whole room of the cleverest clever people.

*I just made that word up. At least I think I did.

 

[eclark1894]

"Bob's your sister?"

I don't get it.

 

[3dcheapskate]

"Bob's your sister?"

I don't get it.

It's all to do with genealogy - Bob and Polly and Fred are siblings of one of your parents.
Unless of course Uncle Bob's on the run, hiding in a convent in drag - like in Nuns On The Run.

P.S. I somehow quoted the wrong post in my previous post

 

[quietrob]

"Bob's your sister?"

I don't get it.

Neither do I. My uncles's names were Caesar, Jesse and George!