Sunday, 8 June 2008

A terrible whiff of creosote...

Oi! Greybeards of the astronomical kind!

It's all very well, sitting there stroking your beard and pondering the planets, but surely you can decide once and for all how many planets are in our Solar System.

Mmmmmm.... Mars Planets...

OK, last year the scientific community announced there were no longer 9 planets. Nothing to do with Vogon constructor fleets, but they decided that Pluto was no longer a planet.

And who can blame them, for we all know that Pluto is the dumb canine companion of one Michael Mouse.

So, imagine my surprise when today I finds out there are now 11 planets in our system! Apparently, Pluto is a planet again, but out of nowhere have come the planets of Eris and Ceres! OK, so we already knew about Ceres, with it's average heighted wearers of grey coveralls, with high cheekbones, slightly tanned complexion and uncany similarity to young Jack Palances.

I guess they had to announce the discovery of Ceres, what with Lombard Omega crashing his flying saucer into the Brentford Pyramid due to a teleported levitating camel incident.

It's gonna bugger up me orrery, these new planets.

Stuffs them astrologers up somewhat though!