# When did Uranus Get Pronounced YOUR uh nuss?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-uranus-get-pronounced-your-uh-nuss/87987>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 17, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-uranus-get-pronounced-your-uh-nuss/87987 "2001-10-17T14:48:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-uranus-get-pronounced-your-uh-nuss/87987/21 "2001-10-19T04:30:51Z")

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You like Elijah and I like Elisha.  
You like epistles, and I like apostles.  
Elijah, Elisha, Epistles, Apostles,  
Let’s call the whole thing off!!!

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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-uranus-get-pronounced-your-uh-nuss/87987/22 "2001-10-19T11:48:47Z")

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What do toilet paper and the Starship Enterprise have in common?  
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They both circle Uranus looking for Klingons.

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**Author:** ![gwar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@gwar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwar)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-uranus-get-pronounced-your-uh-nuss/87987/23 "2001-10-19T19:58:24Z")

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Butthead: Uranus is cool!

Beavis: Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-uranus-get-pronounced-your-uh-nuss/87987/24 "2001-10-19T20:47:50Z")

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**Green Bean** You beat me to it!!! Except I always thought they _wiped out_ the klingons…

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**Author:** ![don\_willard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@don\_willard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_willard)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-uranus-get-pronounced-your-uh-nuss/87987/25 "2001-10-20T22:25:46Z")

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There once was a man from Uranus  
Who came down to the earth to be famous.  
“On Uranus,” he said, “ambition is dead,  
And conditions are generally heinous.”

The man from Uranus, named Fred,  
Looked like us, were we pale, bald, and dead.  
But we got him some suits and a fine pair of boots  
And plopped a red wig on his head!

…it goes on. Copywright, D.Willard, 2001.  
And such a nice poem too if I do say so, with no  
double entendres.

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**Author:** ![JSA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@JSA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSA)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2001, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-uranus-get-pronounced-your-uh-nuss/87987/26 "2001-10-21T02:18:35Z")

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I can’t stop giggling when Steve from Blue’s Clues sings  
“… Uranus spins on its side…”

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