Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:
They found a planet out there! A planet larger than Earth with surface temperatures between 32 and 104 degrees. Scientists are calling it “habitable.” There may be water! There may be life! There may be oil, gold, and hot, blue, alien women who think “Earth men are perfect just the way they are.” Fat cats are licking their chops at the possibility of sucking another planet’s resources dry. There is evidence of “killer waves” and “fat snow” and “quaint picnic spots.” It has a definite lack of reality TV!
But there’s a problem. Time Magazine reports that the hot new celestial sphere has been “unpoetically dubbed Gliese 581c.”
Gliese 581c.
This is why they need a highly-paid consultant and songwriter at NASA. Just off the top of my head, I can think of 10 better names for our new, friendly planet:
1. Starbucks #581c
2. Awful Lot o’ Dirt 581c
3. Bluto 581c
4. Pottersville 581c
5. Lands’ Beginning 581c
6. I Can Has Aliens 581c?
7. Round & Ground 581c
8. The United States of America in Exile 581c
9. Fat Cousin Space Ball 581c
10. Second Chance 581c
Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:
Arachnid with greater girth.
Highlight here for answer: [wider spider]
Online Museum of the Week
Photographing Squirrels:
Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau
Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Signs o’ the times from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber, Herman Bennett:
Thank you, come again!
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