Pluto was robbed.

Another thing non-regular-planetary about Pluto is that its orbit is significantly off the ecliptic -- i.e. it's not orbiting in the same plane as the regular planets. Which some people theorize because it was a wandering body captured by the sun's gravity. Wikipedia has a very nice illustration of the orbit, if you read down in the article, which has already been updated to reflect the demotion.

Poor old Pluto. Now he'll have to change all of his stationery!

still at work.

Actually I don't think having Mel apologize to one Jew at a time is a bad thing -even if he confines himself to the U.S.

Currently there are slightly under six million Jews in the U.S. Let's say that a sincere apology takes at least 5 minutes. Then if Mel apologizes 12 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year, it will take him 114 years to apologize to every Jew currently living in the U.S. Of course this is an approximation. Many Jews will die before that 114 years are up. (We won't make him apologize to anyone born after his remarks.) On the other hand he can't apologize on Sabbaths and high holidays. (Unless he converts - then he can ask forgiveness to mass crowds on Yom Kippur. But I would insist that any conversion on his part be accompanied by a circumcision .) At any rate I think it would be perfectly appropriate for Mel to spend the rest of his life, apologizing to us, either one at a time, or in small groups.

Also, if I'm remembering correctly (and I may not be, I've been reading about binary stellar systems all day; my brain may be poisoned), the center of gravity for the orbit of Pluto isn't even ON Pluto. It's a point between Charon and Pluto.

If Clyde were alive, he'd be making up godawful puns about this.

I believe you are correct, sarameg.

I think I just ate the most perfect tomato. It was SO FUCKING GOOD. And I still have half left. Someone brought in softball sized tomatoes, I assume from their garden- they were left in a common area. Man, if there are some left tomorrow, I'm taking more.

It's been kinda nice. So many people appear to garden, and have excess this year. There have been cherry tomatoes, a huge variety of peppers, monster zucchini and cucumbers.

OH MY GOD!!!!!! There are just not enough Canadians on the board any more. Burnt Toast is totally a Canadian shibboleth. (which is probably partially why there are so many google hits for it.) I can't believe that noone piped up to reference this:

"Toast is burning." Movie with sound at link.

Do I know how to kill a thread or what?