Overheard On ‘Millionaire’
…just this second (as I was drying my hands to change the channel):
Meredith: How many planets in our solar system have one syllable names?
[Pregnant pause as male contestant ponders]
[ponders ponders ponders] Contestant: I can only think of two right now. Mars and Venus.
Lucky thing for him the audience was on top of that one.
Public edumakayshun works.
Hehehe
Hmmmm.
Well thank goodness Ur-anus wasn’t involved.
I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2250 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Now it’s called Urectum.
Urong,Diptera.
Throughout the country his past English teachers were getting mysterious chest pains. . .
Wha…huh?
On second thought: Since the common wisdom is that America isn’t really part of the world, it only follows that Earth isn’t part of the solar system.
Ms Sister – au contraire, I may have gotten the year wrong in the quote, but that is an actual Futurama line. *sigh* my alleged humor is once more allegedly unappreciated. =)
(Uright, Diptera, since u couldn’t tell I was funnin’ u…)