Chapter 1: Less Than Mind-Bloggeling Thoughts

In Space, Size DOES Matter

I have to say... I really feel bad for Pluto. I mean... being stripped of one's ranking... that's just...wrong!

Especially because now I have to erase this mnemonic from my brain:

"My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets"

"My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine" - showed us nine what?? Cookies?? Gumballs?? Dismembered Heads??

If you're gonna un-rank Pluto because it doesn't resemble a real planet, why not strip Dopey of his "Seven Dwarf" ranking? If you think about it, he doesn't LOOK like any of the other dwarfs... he's bald... doesn't have a beard... and he's much younger (which raise the question, I suppose: IS he even a dwarf? Which raises yet another question: Do the Seven Dwarfs like young boys?).

And...along the same lines... why not strip Froggy of his "Little Rascal" ranking? The kid's voice hit puberty (and then some) way before his body... so is there really anything Little Rascally about him?

If we can add a kid to the Brady Bunch (this is a subject for a different blog entry... but what the hell were they thinking by adding Oliver to the mix? Forget cartoon violence inducing intense behavior in young children... Oliver Brady is enough to make you wanna punch the living daylights outta anyone within 3 feet of you!)... if we can add a kid to the "Cosby Show"...and pretend their a real "Cosby" or a real "Brady", then we can add Pluto back into the mix. Poor little guy...never had a chance.

I'd like to say it's not the size of the planet but the magic in it... but in outerspace, unfortunately, size DOES matter.

And so starts the insanity...or maybe I should say, and so CONTINUES the insanity...cuz in this world... insanity is an endless loop:

Pluto Loses Designation, Sues IAU

(There are some great comments to the above article. The following are 3 that I found quite funny):

Pluto is not a "dwarf" planet. Let's be more sensitive here. It's just "size-challeged."
Posted by: Stephen Cram | August 25, 2006 02:17 PM

Hey - does this make all of you planets if I think the universe revolves around ME?
Posted by: Center of it all | August 25, 2006 03:13 PM

Pluto, suffering from planet envy, sues. Film at eleven.
Posted by: Debbi Atkinson | August 25, 2006 02:36 PM

Aside from me to the universal powers that be:
While you're going around changing things, can you change the name of Uranus? Cuz my husband's favorite inter-galactic joke is "on a clear night, I can see Uranus." And I hear it over and over and over again....

posted by Joanne @ 12:30 PM 0 comments

How do you like your cartoons? Smoking or Non-Smoking?

"Tom And Jerry Quit Smoking"
Mark Sweney
Monday August 21, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk

"Smoking scenes are to be edited out of classic Tom and Jerry cartoons, following a complaint to the broadcast regulator that they are inappropriate for a show aimed at children.

The complaint was about two separate cartoons - Texas Tom and Tennis Chumps - transmitted repeatedly this year on Turner Broadcasting's children's channel, Boomerang.

Boomerang's audience is made up largely of children - 56% are aged four to 14 years old."

And so the article continues....

Tom and Jerry quit smoking

I never had the urge to smoke from watching Looney Tunes as a kid growing up (well, I use the term 'growing up' loosely when it applies to myself). What I'M upset about is the whole "draw a hole on a mountainside and run through" it trick that the Road Runner used to pull... because I could never get that down! I spent hours...days...trying to pass through hillsides on which I drew large, gaping holes... and all I ended up with were sore shoulders, smashed bicycles, and headaches. If you're going to bitch about removing ANYTHING from a Looney Tunes cartoon... please! Get your priorties straight! At least you can really puff on a cigarette and it works!

What's next? Pluto gets stripped of its rights as a planet?? Oh, wait...this just in....

"Pluto gets the boot"

posted by Joanne @ 11:26 AM 0 comments