Demotion of Pluto as a planet

[Antti Karttunen]

Brendan McKay wrote:

>But the winner and the next one include Pluto which is no
>longer a planet, so why are they even considered?
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Because Pluto is that "unfortunate ninth planet"! Excellently 
self-referential mnemonics!
I liked them, thanks to Jonathan for posting them.
(I guess we should get back to sequences soon, before the note comes 
from Paris...)

-- Antti

>Brendan.
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>* Jonathan Post <jvospost3 at gmail.com> [060827 04:06]:
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>>Post-Pluto mnemonics for the planets
>>
>>Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan held a competition to
>>come up with a better mnemonic for the planets' names
>>in the wake of the decision to demote Pluto
>>from planet-status. The winner, Josh Mishell's
>>"My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous
>>planetariums" is great, as are the runners-up:
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>>   Many Very Earnest Men Just Snubbed Unfortunate
>>Ninth Planet (Dave Child)
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>>   "My vision, erased. Mercy! Just some underachiever
>>now." (Delia, as spoken by Pluto discoverer Clyde
>>Tombaugh)
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>>   Most vexing experience, mother just served us
>>nothing! (Bart Baxter)
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