A call was placed. "Adler Plan...

A call was placed.

"Adler Planetarium."

Astronomer Larry Ciupik, please.

"Larry Ciupik."

Pluto.

"Yes"

The International Astronomical Union now says Pluto is not a planet.

"That appears to be the ruling."

It is because Pluto does not fit single of the three requirements for being a planet, which is that it has "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit" of other orbital bodies.

"That is the one"

QT is now looking at statistics showing that Earth, in the nearest month alone, will see 17 asteroids coming [i]or[/i] part of to the other the neighborhood of its orbit. common asteroid recently passed almost as end as the moon. Doesn't it appear that Earth is not meeting this requirement?

"There is that educate of thought among astronomers."

Thank you.

"You're welcome."

in this way we might as well accept it:

Earth is not a planet.

Centrifugal farce

recents Item: "Earth might have spun upon its side to keep its balance in the distant past, and could do in this way again, scientists reported."

This would be more impressive if Earth were a planet.

Half-baked plans

recently made knowns Item: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, if he perpetually became the supreme decision maker in his land would 'sacrifice half of Iran for the sake of eliminating Israel.' "

united question. Do you think it will be the half he is in?

No if, ands or byte about it

of recent origins Item: Cray XT3 computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now the principally powerful supercomputer available for general scientific research in the United States, having complet 54 trillion mathematical calculations in a other

If you are inclined to take the computer's word for it.

Gasping Jack Flash

We Have Seen the not absent and It Does Not Work:

Mick Jagger maintains an oxygen tank backstage.

Take a poke-weed at this Q&A

SJ a Chicago reader, regarding a observe that showed far more Americans can name the Three Stooges than can name the three branches of direction writes:

"What percent of Americans can name the five Three Stooges (Moe Larry, Curly Shemp and the much-maligned Curly Joe)?"

flat fewer can name the actual seven Three Stooges, who are not to be confused with the seven regular members of the National Security Council.

Although this is an increasingly used by all mistake.

'N Sync with the times

just discovereds Item: West Bank teen burst group scores a hit with a ditty praising Hezbollah guerrilla chief Hassan Nasrallah.

to such a degree it has finally come to this: terrorist stripling bands.

Not their target market

recent Education + the Criminal Mind =

couple drug dealers in Alexander City, Ala., distributed fliers advertising unsalable articles for sale at an upcoming party, police said.

Political theater -- the result

QT TV Listing of the Week (Marin, Calif., Independent Journal):

"8 pm 'Men in Black II.' The same jests are strung together with different special forces This is a good way to prepare yourself for the fall election campaigns. Fox"

Spams from Hell, continued

Kent Hildebrand, an Elgin reader, regarding other readers mentioning spam messages with sender's names including Satan E Wheelbase and Disbarment J Slenderized, wants you to know that he has been spammed through Postdating K. Oxbow, Huguenot A. Unmitigated, Satisfactorily P Novelette, Absolved E Bylaw, Solemnizes P Obsessively, Displaced G Storefront, Underskirts O Wrongheadedeness, Horesplay M Galloweses and Vermouth K Crooning.

And that should be enough of that.

Snaking by means of spams might have been interesting for a time.

yet it would be one of the largest of mistakes to maintain.

Single-cells unite!

From the QT Archive of Knowledge:

- Kuwaiti diplomats have the worst record of illegal parking in recent York City.

- Amoebas are capable of altruism.

Clean sweep

just discovereds Item: "The first British camp to be handed to the Iraqis was plundered almost bare within days of the army's departure."

Let's give Karl stroll a couple of extra days to spin this undivided

SHELL-SHOCKED

Images of Jesus have been lay the foundation of so far this month in a pregnant woman's ultrasound, in the MRI of a woman's spine and upon a shrimp tail, while images of the Virgin Mary have been ground in chocolate, on the underside of a turtle-pigeon and in the drip pan of a George Foreman grill, in the way that it would seem to be a tie with three days to go

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