Pluto was alwyas well behaved but I must confess that Uranus is my favorite.
Tonight has yielded a number of insane stories to make me feel insane. This one may have pushed me over the edge. WTF is wrong with these people? How could these morons torture their own children with such horrible names? Gahhh.
I remember many moons ago when the late Peter Jennings was broadcasting a story about some NASA probe (Voyager?) that was about to exit our solar system, and apparently there was some malfunction with it and photos and data from the planet Uranus would not be acquired.
Jennings looked right into the camera with a shrug and said literally said “well, scratch Uranus” (pronouncing it “yur anus”, realized what he had said, and just dropped his face to the desk with one fist hitting the desk as well, knowing there was no way to recover from that.
You could hear the staff in the background howling, and Jennings head came back up red faced with a schoolboy-in-trouble sort of grin, and he gamely continued on, but from that day forward he pronounced that planet’s name as ‘YUR-AH-NUS’. Jennings later recounted that as one of his most embarrassing moments.
He might have been a liberal like most of them, but I liked Jennings, he was a genuinely nice guy.