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SPARKY'S SCIENTIFIC FINDING

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Mainstream hidebound dinosaur scientists will claim there are nowhere near this many new planets, but the onus is on them to prove me wrong. There's one of those words, onus, that are tainted by their proximity to, well, you know. I like words like that. They're kind of dangerous by proxy, like "Did I just hear---?" But they really mean ordinary things. Kind of like one of these nerdy guys who like to dress up like cops and stop people for traffic violations. During the Labor Day Riots in Virginia Beach a few years back, there ended up being just one arrest, and it turned out to be by one of these guys. Have I mentioned that I believe Virginia Beach and Chesapeake are Satan's Territory? In a "banality of evil" kind of way. They lull you into thinking they're all about golf and lawn care and cosmetic surgery, and then BAM! they've got your soul. Just go to one of those places and look around. You'll see. I defy a scientist to prove me wrong.

Posted on Monday, August 21, 2006 at 08:16AM by Registered CommenterSparky Donatello | Comments6 Comments

Reader Comments (6)

I'm sorry but none of these will be eligible to qualify as planets as the mainstream hidebound dinosaur scientists have defined it. To whit (and say what you must about THAT word):"a celestial body with sufficient mass to assume a nearly spherical shape that orbits a star without being another star or a satellite of another planet." Or as the astronomer on the Daily Show explained it last week, "are you round?"
Now I think you could make an argument for Urgina and if someone has a problem with that name you can always refer them to the planet that many mainstream hidebound dinosaur scientists have accepted for years - Uranus.
But there is still one question that plagues me -
#1 what do dinosaur scientists have to do with planets?
August 21, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterk
This is certainly something to masticate on.
August 21, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterCatherine
Alright, that does it! I'm joining Bernard! No more posting to this damn blog! I--oh wait, it's my blog. Never mind.
August 21, 2006 | Registered CommenterSparky Donatello
I'm likin' that Drib.

Hey, here's a funny story. I used to work in a design firm and Scholastic was one of our clients. We were designing these big activity cards for kids, and photographing everyday objects as models in order to measure the distances between the Earth and different planets. So the client calls and tell us that one of units of measurement will be toilet paper squares. So I'm on the phone with the client, and I say, "so exactly how much toilet paper is between the Earth and URANUS?" URANUS, get it??? Good times.
August 21, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterAmanda
Blinky has his own sun poof
August 26, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterLydia
I'd love to live at Gerdo, is it possible to get a flat. Love your drawings
August 30, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterMattias Adolfsson

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