As I’ve stated here before, I love your commentary and I truly enjoy the great lessons and insights you provide, but please don’t keep trying to impress folks with idiotic internet slang (or whatever these cretin-logisms are that sprinkle your posts from time to time). They just aren’t appropriate and tend to obfuscate the actual opinion or science you’re trying to provide.

What’s with this compulsion to do this? You’re certainly old enough and educated enough to avoid falling into some strange “internet distortion field” that mandates use of words that must appeal to a very narrow group of readers.

/rant

“Meanwhile there are other tests you can do through this site which are timed and one of them just happened to be “How many planets in the solar system can you name in 30 sec?”. I got all bar 1. Apparently they didn’t get the memo about Pluto.”

Or the general majority of people are just ignoring the IAU absurdity because they think – or even *know* – that the IAU got it wrong in their anti-Plutonian decree which hopefully will yet be reversed so that sanityprevails and Pluto returns along with its other “ice dwarf” planetary kin. (Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Sedna, etc ..)

Maybe they, like me, reckon the IAU can take a long walk off a short jetty when it comes to this issue.

As for my pets, they know when they’re onto a good deal!

Meanwhile there are other tests you can do through this site which are timed and one of them just happened to be “How many planets in the solar system can you name in 30 sec?”.

I got all bar 1.
Apparently they didn’t get the memo about Pluto.

LarryD

Here’s a tip to save your life – try pushing the IAU for them to restore the constellation of Felis!

Yes that’s a real one – albeit long denied official status. Lalande came up with Felis back in the something hundreds .. He’d included it as a joke to let his kitty scratch the sky – it obviously needed something other than his curtains and furniture too!

Only seems fair theres four dogs in the sky already -CanisMajor, Minor and the two “Hunting dogs” of Canes Venatici. ‘Bout time a cat got put up there too!

It’s actually the reputation of cats as cold hearted (yet fuzzy) killers that makes me like them.

Sidenote: got a kitten that is strangely fascinated by the toilet when it flushes

Meow. Cliche I know, but I am a cat. I normally wouldn’t bother with this accursed instrument, but none of my humans seem to be around right now. (Unreliable breed, can’t for the lives of me think why I started raising them.) Since you must be a human (No cat would stoop to using one of these things.) and thus couldn’t possibly want anything of interest to me, I’ll start a recorder so you can tell mine whatever trivial nonsense you want. (pause) (beep) If you haven’t left your message, you had your chance. That’s my dinner. Ta ta. (click)

C. C. yawned at me from her window seat, then turned back to watching the bird feeder outside. I don’t know what had been in the microwave, but I had the devil’s own time scrubbing the splatter out.

Neat-O

She’s a handful, though.

Oh, and her name is “Zombie.”

Hmm, now that I think about it, she often eats my hair. Nah, ain’t no bad intentions, there.

BTW, BA, do you need a pic of DFTS in Tassie?

Yes, they’re sneaky that way.