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Uranus (T-H-L-K-D)Hmm... which paragraph isn't appropriate in an encyclopedia entry about a planet: QUOTE Sir William Herschel observed the planet on 13 March 1781 while in the garden of his house at 19 New King Street in the town of Bath, Somerset (now the Herschel Museum of Astronomy),[20] but initially reported it (on 26 April 1781) as a "comet".[21] Herschel "engaged in a series of observations on the parallax of the fixed stars",[22] using a telescope of his own design. That seems OK. QUOTE Uranus's axis of rotation lies on its side on the plane of the Solar System, with an axial tilt of 97.77 degrees. This gives it seasonal changes completely unlike those of the other major planets. Other planets can be visualized to rotate like tilted spinning tops on the plane of the Solar System, while Uranus rotates more like a tilted rolling ball. Near the time of Uranian solstices, one pole faces the Sun continuously while the other pole faces away. Only a narrow strip around the equator experiences a rapid day-night cycle, but with the Sun very low over the horizon as in the Earth's polar regions. At the other side of Uranus's orbit the orientation of the poles towards the Sun is reversed. Each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.[49] Near the time of the equinoxes, the Sun faces the equator of Uranus giving a period of day-night cycles similar to those seen on most of the other planets. Uranus reached its most recent equinox on 7 December 2007.[50][51] Also good. I did not know this about Uranus. Wikipedia is awesome. QUOTE The planet Uranus is associated with homosexuality because, based on Greek mythology about Aphrodite, beginning in the late 19th century, the term Uranian has been used to denote homosexuals.[119] The final show of the Cockettes, a San Francisco drag troupe, took place in the summer of 1972; it was called Journey to the Center of Uranus, reflecting the homophone "your anus." In that show drag queen Lady Divine performed her song "The Crab at the Center of Uranus" while dressed as a lobster.[120] The Club Uranus was a popular queer dance club that took place on Sunday nights at the End Up in San Francisco in the early 1990s; it lasted from December 1989 to December 1992.[121] Umm... excuse me?
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QUOTE(MookieZ @ Tue 27th April 2010, 10:09am) QUOTE The planet Uranus is associated with homosexuality because, based on Greek mythology about Aphrodite, beginning in the late 19th century, the term Uranian has been used to denote homosexuals.[119] The final show of the Cockettes, a San Francisco drag troupe, took place in the summer of 1972; it was called Journey to the Center of Uranus, reflecting the homophone "your anus." In that show drag queen Lady Divine performed her song "The Crab at the Center of Uranus" while dressed as a lobster.[120] The Club Uranus was a popular queer dance club that took place on Sunday nights at the End Up in San Francisco in the early 1990s; it lasted from December 1989 to December 1992.[121]
Umm … excuse me? HaHa, you said “homophoneâ€. Jon (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif)
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QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 27th April 2010, 7:22am) QUOTE(MookieZ @ Tue 27th April 2010, 10:09am) QUOTE The planet Uranus is associated with homosexuality because, based on Greek mythology about Aphrodite, beginning in the late 19th century, the term Uranian has been used to denote homosexuals.[119] The final show of the Cockettes, a San Francisco drag troupe, took place in the summer of 1972; it was called Journey to the Center of Uranus, reflecting the homophone "your anus." In that show drag queen Lady Divine performed her song "The Crab at the Center of Uranus" while dressed as a lobster.[120] The Club Uranus was a popular queer dance club that took place on Sunday nights at the End Up in San Francisco in the early 1990s; it lasted from December 1989 to December 1992.[121]
Umm … excuse me? HaHa, you said “homophoneâ€. Jon (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/tongue.gif) A communications device used by gay men to talk about Uranus. Much like Wikipedia.
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QUOTE(Zoloft @ Tue 27th April 2010, 2:06pm) QUOTE(Moulton @ Tue 27th April 2010, 7:23pm) I keeping getting confused over the difference between AN/I and AN/US. Is one for rivalries, and the other for collaborators?
I well remember my astronomy class in university. Our instructor would pounce angrily on any student who pronounced Uranus the way 99.99% of the population did. He would scream, "It's pronounced YOO-RUN-US! YOO-RUN-US! ...you uneducated yokel." It took away some of the tedium of plotting orbits. In Futurama (set a millennia from now), The Professor invents a smell-o-scope that can smell astonomical objects (okay, suspend your disbelief). Fry says "Hey, point it at u-RANE-us." The professor says, "Oh, they renamed that planet centuries ago, to get rid of that stupid joke." "What's the new name?" "U-REC-tum." Ah, I love that cartoon.
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QUOTE(Moulton @ Tue 27th April 2010, 12:23pm) I keeping getting confused over the difference between AN/I and AN/US. Is one for rivalries, and the other for collaborators?
No, AN/I has a papyrus picture showing you facing Ultimate Judgement, naturally enough called The Papyrus of AN/I. If, in this process your wiki-heart is weighed and found wanting, some foul beast eats you, and you disappear from WP. (IMG: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll191/Shrlocc/ANI1.jpg) If, on the other hand, your heart is Wikipedian on the scales, you get presented to the God-King of the Un-dead, Jimbosirus, and have to keep editing in the underworld, forever. (IMG: http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll191/Shrlocc/ANI2.jpg)
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QUOTE(Moulton @ Wed 28th April 2010, 10:08am) QUOTE(Deletion Log) 02:54, 19 April 2005 Rdsmith4 (talk | contribs) deleted "Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Unusual Situations" ‎ (trolling) Come again? What was that all about? There's nothing of importance in that page; just a single revision where a header was added by this fellow.
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