… and to be commemorated 470 million years before it occurred, it must have been pretty amazing! I guess they though Cambrian Explosion described what happened to waistlines at the time?
It’s a good thing that that other sense of “Uranian” has fallen out of common parlance, or nine-year-olds everywhere would giggle until they injured themselves.
I learn the strangest stuff here. Thanks.
You could always do what I did back when I was learning it from written sources w/o benefit of actually having heard the word before – make up my own English pronunciation by mangling it into “you- RAN-nus”
Bravo! Never heard that one…
I was going to say “I don’t know if I would admit to that, if I were you…”
But then I realized, I would admit to that (and probably have with my previous post…).
My mantra: Puns aren’t supposed to be funny to anyone other than the teller. For best results, they should be downright painful to the the reciever. If they are so bad as to cause cerebral hemmorage, all the better!
No, we say “Your anus” too.
From MST3K:
“We dedicate this day to Uranus!”
Crow: Well, thank you, I-
Ah yes, Uranus. A few years ago, The Highwayman and I were just going back to school and took Astronomy together (we usually called it Ass-tronomy. We’re so mature). Anyways, the prof is describing the orbit and rotation of Uranus.
“You see, Uranus is actually corkscrewing.”
We about died laughing, but were the only ones in the lecture hall to dare to do so. I am so never going to grow up.
How about “Caelus”? Isn’t that the Roman deity equated with Uranus/Ouranos?
And more about Uranus.