# The Sollar (sic) System needs a president? Who knew? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834 "2012-06-21T13:16:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/21 "2012-06-22T09:37:20Z")
Twenty posts and no one’s done a Uranus joke? This place is slipping. Also, I note he’s including Pluto in his list, which is already courting controversy. Pluto is like the Puerto Rico of the Solar (sorry - Sollar) system - it’s there but it’s not really part of it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/22 "2012-06-22T13:07:18Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Twenty posts and no one’s done a Uranus joke? This place is slipping. After probing Uranus over and over again and never getting a reaction, we just figured it wasn’t interested in a relationship with us. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/23 "2012-06-22T14:51:18Z")
So, Gyrate, you’re saying you want people to do Uranus? ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/24 "2012-06-22T23:54:59Z")
**Gezmo** got this wine bottle…slightly (well…mostly) used. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/25 "2012-06-23T01:54:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Also, I note he’s including Pluto in his list, which is already courting controversy. Pluto is like the Puerto Rico of the Solar (sorry - Sollar) system - it’s there but it’s not really part of it. If elected, I swear to ensure the equality of dwarf planets! No longer will Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Orcus, Quaoar, 2007 OR[sub]10[/sub] and Sedna be relegated to second class status, and will have all the rights and privileges of the other planets! Unless, of course, more data and better size estimates of the last four show they _are_ dwarf planets. If not, we’ll treat them like the icy asteroids they are, and deport them from the Sollar System. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/26 "2012-06-23T02:09:00Z")
Has anyone looked at his [website](http://about.me/monfort)? > [@](#): > > Jaime P. Monfort graduated from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 2000 with a master’s and a bachelor’s in telecommunications engineering, having also studied two years as an exchange student at Télécom ParisTech and Universität Stuttgart. Subsequently he earned master’s degrees in business administration from Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris, in financial economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, in financial engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, in economic development from the London School of Economics, and in public administration from Columbia University. He currently pursues a master’s in international law and politics at Georgetown University. By my count he’s claiming seven master’s degrees and working on an eighth. Couldn’t hack the PhD program? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/27 "2012-06-23T03:38:04Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > By my count he’s claiming seven master’s degrees and working on an eighth. > > Couldn’t hack the PhD program? You need a wide skill set to handle all of the duties of the office of Sollar President. You can’t afford to focus too deeply on one subject. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/28 "2012-06-23T05:46:34Z")
Before I vote, I’ll need to really look at his political positions. Where does he stand on the illegal aliens issue? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/29 "2012-06-23T13:03:05Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Before I vote, I’ll need to really look at his political positions. Where does he stand on the illegal aliens issue? He just wants To Serve Man. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834/30 "2012-06-24T00:37:14Z")
I’ve got a bad feeling about how this is going to turn out. Saturn uses the butterfly ballot AND Pat Buchanan is planning on running. Can we get Katherine Harris appointed Secretary of Planet there? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sollar-sic-system-needs-a-president-who-knew/625834.md?page=1)