The Rings Around Uranus
Posted on: February 1, 2010 - 9:08am
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The Rings Around Uranus
I am of the mind that the name of the planet Uranus should be pronounced "yooranoos".
Or else, the question "When did they discover rings around Uranus?" can be misunderstood.
I distinctly heard "When did they discover rings around your anus?"...
To which I promptly replied "WTF do you mean? Rings around my anus?"
And she laughed...
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Why not just revert to the Greek version Ouranos?
No confusion there, unlike the Latinized version.
To add to which, a few years ago, when one of the Voyager probes made it out there, the media in the US did not want to pronounce the name of the planet as “your anus” so they changed the stress around and made it sound like “urine-ous”.
I guess that instead of it being the place with brown rings, it became the um, “ shaft of gold liquid” planet. Yah, that pretty much precluded the concept of school boy level jokes. Or not.
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Definately not the best named planet...
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Personally, I think the world would be a duller place without such silly little gaffes.
I remember hearing about a site called Experts Exchange opening up for experts around the world to trade expertise.
However, the domain name www.expertsexchange.com kind of gave people the wrong idea...
well, the confusion came when the latin version was anglicized. the greek "ouranos" and the latin "uranus" are nearly identical in pronunciation.
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Your link is going to a parking page right now. However, I would have to agree. One of my favorites was an aquarium form that i was active on a few years ago. It had the word saltwater in the swear filter.
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Fry: "Hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus." *laughs*
Leela: "I don't get it."
Professor: "I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all."
Fry: "Oh. What's it called now?"
Professor: "Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you."
you mean its the best named planet!
I probably should have explained it better - it wasn't intended as a link.
The domain was ww.expertsexchange.com
i.e. it could also be read as "expert sex change"
I think they changed the domain name so it's no longer called that - I expect that's why it now links to something random.
that is the funniest fucking picture i have seen in years, and i can't completely grasp why.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Oh, you did not have to explain it, I saw the reference as quite obvious. Hence the reason why I mentioned the other example. Just in case you missed that, the key reason for the issue was the spelling "sal-twat-er" tripped the swear filter. But whatever. Just in case, I checked and amateursexchange.com is taken. Oh well, I could have had much fun with that domain name.
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Futurama FTW!!!
Ha! Unfortunately I'm not quite as sharp - SalTWATer did need explaining to me.
I thought it must be some in-joke about the aquarium owning moderators hating the open sea or something...
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