Nope. You're right. Launch Pad McQuack was also on both shows. (I only liked Darkwing Duck, though.)

For the record, the food is pronounced "yee-ro" so far as I've ever heard.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

One bonus of discussing things online is not having to pronounce anything.

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It's Georgium Sidus and should stay so.

Right, George?

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If he was still active I would assume the banned thread would be double the size now.

Heck I would have been banned at least once by his standards.

cheers


Back to topic, I never found the joke funny. I'm not a prude or anything but it never made me giggle.

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Never used a mirror, eh?

Amazing what snobs these refractor types are. Goes all the way to the first Unitron ads, I guess.

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Oh, I've used mirrors. But sadly they are poor at reflecting green objects on a Wednesday.

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A slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of one optic towards an equinine quadruped utterly devoid of any visionary capacity.

I'm a reflector user. Always was. I can't even logicaly explain my aversion to refractors..

But all the same- I avoid relfective surfaces that bounce my face back at me
Usually I'm quick enough to duck and avoid retina damge but you never know- one day- the speed of light may just catch up with me :sigh:

I pronounce uranus in the standard Dutch way which I won't try to type phonetically here. In English it's "you rain us" for me. With the "rain" stressed.

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i just say lets look at ur anus,,,,

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The greeks I've known pronounce it year-oh. Hey - it's their sandwich. I say let them decide.

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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.

Unless you say that slowly and make sure to put in some very noticable pauses, that is going to be the same as saying "Your Anus"

Are you talking about Ducktales? Man, I loved that show! "Ducktales, woo-hoo! Might solve a mystery- or rewrite history!"
I'm surprised that everyone understands why never to say "Faulkland Islands" in front of "middle school monkeys". It's actually something I can print, too.

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If you say it stress rain even saying it fast it doesn't sound like your-anus. Remember the YOUR in your-anus is stressed.

I thought I was the only person that had that song memorized
I never meant to. For some reason, it lodged in my brain and won't leave...

I pronounce it YOU-ruh-nuss. However, when I give a star talk at our local planetarium, the smart-aleck kid pronounces it your-ANUS. As in "Do you have any pictures of your-ANUS? Giggle, titter, tee-HEE!".........

tbm

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Very good explanation.
I just wonder how English/American pupils pronounce Latin text!? E.g.: Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. (by tdvance)

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1 + e^i*pi = 0

How perfect- on a board where SETI is often discussed, I discover that I am not alone!
I really feel sorry for whoever did PR on the Voyager missions.
"And after Saturn, it will visit Uranus-"
(Crazy laughter from reporters)
"-Oh, what are you, six years old?"

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek

So, sometimes it is good to have a language with longer complicated words which in general cannot be confused with single letters from the alphabet.
Even though "anus" would be the same in German the "Ur" cannot be confused with anything. Also the the pronounciation is "U ra nus".

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Yur a nus


Doug