MOTM

I've heard it pronounced that way, but then Beavis & Butthead still connect
it with urine.

How about oo-RAH-noos? With a trilled "r"? That should be different enough.

(Not that anything we decide here will change the inevitable...)


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Schabtach [mailto:adam@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September, 2002 1:02 PM
To: MOTM Forum All
Subject: Re: [motm] Uranus (was: Name That Modular!)

> Yeah, that's a planet that perennially gets giggles in grade school

classes.

> Any English-speaking space comedy film seems required to point out the
> ostensible humor in that name as well.

I had a Classics professor in college who said that this particular Greek
deity's name could be more accurately pronounced "UR-an-os" rather than
"yer-AYN-us", thus potentially saving the composure of thousands of
grade-school children every year.

--Adam

If you are easily offended by elementary school humor, do not read any
further....

Q: How are the Enterprise and toilet paper alike?

A: They both circle Uranus picking off Klingons.

--Shemp (nyuk, nyuk, nyuk)

> > Yeah, that's a planet that perennially gets giggles in grade school
> classes.
> > Any English-speaking space comedy film seems required to point out the
> > ostensible humor in that name as well.