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Save Pluto by Dave Horlick  Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:47:49 GMT

Zeke and Meg are arguing in a planetarium. | Meg: Object! | Zeke: Planet! | Meg: Object!Bridget: Whoa whoa whoa! What's going on here? | Zeke: I maintain that Pluto is a planet. This infidel says it's merely an object.Bridget: Well, what's a planet? | Zeke: It's a great big, um, planety thingumajig that sort of wanders around the sky.Bridget: Does it really matter what we call Pluto? Can a word change its physical properties or make it any less awesome? | Zeke: I guess not.Bridget: I wonder why Pluto rotates backwards from the way Earth does. | Meg: Maybe something smashed into it? | Zeke: I bet ball lightning was involved somehow.

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