Is A Part Of
My spin on Pluto getting demoted from The Ninth Planet to the largest of several notable ‘dwarf planets’: I have none. Maybe if it had been named after a Looney Tunes character, I might have cared.
As for the struggle to come up with an eight-word mnemoic to replace all those memory tricks you used to remind yourself that Jupiter comes before Saturn, all I can say is:
Many very easy mnemonics just seem unnecessarily nonsensical.
August 25th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
You. Are. A. Winner.
I. Like. Periods. .
August 28th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
[...] On top of that, those wonderful folks at mentalfloss.com (who are the same people as mental_floss magazine, just not allowed to use that underscore by the Evil Overlords of the Internet) have quoted my Pluto-free planet mnemonic elsewhere in their blog, linking back to someplace on this site (which I have now made into an infinite loop of links from which you readers will never escape! Bwahahaha!). Now, if you will excuse me, I need to let some air out of my head. [...]