Classic from the Mrs! Vol 2

[RizzoTheRat]

Alex@POD said:

Oh good.
Also, what a phrase to use! I thought it was supposed to make it easy... Something like my very easy method just speeds up naming planets, at least it's topical.

It's surprising how a mnemonic can stick despite not being relevant to the subject. eg I'll always remember King Philip Cried Out For Goodness Sake.

[SistersofPercy]

I forgot the 'just'

"My very elderly maiden aunt just swam under north pier"

A is apparently asteroids and pluto has been demoted. I guess it's what she was taught in school. Though still not sure which is Mars and which is Mercury.

[Evangelion]

SistersofPercy said:

... still not sure which is Mars and which is Mercury.

The one you can eat is nearest to us.

[havoc]

Bullett said:

Einion Yrth said:

An argument I like is that a dwarf planet is a planet in the same way that a blue car is a car.

Doesn't work for me. I'd say it would be more like is one of those micro cars (the ones you can drive with a moped license) a car.
It looks like a small car but legally it's something else.

So what're Ganymede and Titan then? Since they're bigger than Mercury or Pluto...

:grabsscalpelandkitten:

[Plastic chicken]

Me: "why did you get the super-deluxe dogfood when the supermarket own-brand is 10p a can cheaper and the dog will happily eat anything?"

Wife: "because the supermarket own-brand smells awful!"

[Ari]

Plastic chicken said:

Me: "why did you get the super-deluxe dogfood when the supermarket own-brand is 10p a can cheaper and the dog will happily eat anything?"

Wife: "because the supermarket own-brand smells awful!"

Which seems fair enough, why stink your kitchen out with foul smelling dog food if decent stuff that doesn't smell is only 10p more?

What am I missing..?

[AstonZagato]

I’m with your wife on that one. Feeding the dogs first thing in the morning, especially with a hangover, when the dog food smells gopping is really challenging. Gravy based (as opposed to jelly based) is worse.

[Lance Catamaran]

AstonZagato said:

I’m with your wife on that one. Feeding the dogs first thing in the morning, especially with a hangover, when the dog food smells gopping is really challenging. Gravy based (as opposed to jelly based) is worse.

Never understood why, seeing as dogs and cats have a vastly superior sense of smell to us, that their food has to stink so much

[Einion Yrth]

havoc said:

Bullett said:

Einion Yrth said:

An argument I like is that a dwarf planet is a planet in the same way that a blue car is a car.

Doesn't work for me. I'd say it would be more like is one of those micro cars (the ones you can drive with a moped license) a car.
It looks like a small car but legally it's something else.

So what're Ganymede and Titan then? Since they're bigger than Mercury or Pluto...

:grabsscalpelandkitten:

They're moons, that has never been in doubt.

[Moonhawk]

havoc said:

So what're Ganymede and Titan then? Since they're bigger than Mercury or Pluto...

:grabsscalpelandkitten:

Moons.

IAU definition of a planet and dwarf planet. Pluto is defined as a dwarf planet because it fails criteria 'c' of the definition of a planet. Ganymede and Titan are defined as moons, despite being larger than Pluto because they they fail criteria 'a' of the dwarf planet definition - (criteria 'd' as well if we take it to mean natural satellites)

A "planet" is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape2, (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.

Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 7th November 08:49

[Roofless Toothless]

Lance Catamaran said:

AstonZagato said:

I’m with your wife on that one. Feeding the dogs first thing in the morning, especially with a hangover, when the dog food smells gopping is really challenging. Gravy based (as opposed to jelly based) is worse.

Never understood why, seeing as dogs and cats have a vastly superior sense of smell to us, that their food has to stink so much

I do get guilty about the nauseating stuff we buy for our cat. I can accept it is a well balanced diet for him and that it keeps him healthy, but would you eat even a teaspoon full of it?

Although he seems to gobble it down quite readily, just give him a treat like a few bits cut from the Sunday roast and see how he reacts. He goes absolutely ballistic for a kipper. They must know the difference.

[Europa1]

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That's a classic from your Mrs? You may have to elucidate.

[havoc]

Moonhawk said:

havoc said:

So what're Ganymede and Titan then? Since they're bigger than Mercury or Pluto...

:grabsscalpelandkitten:

Moons.

I know...I was being facetious...hoped the footnote would give it away but clearly my sense of humour is a little adrift right now...

[brrapp]

Europa1 said:

Nanook said:

My very early morning jam sandwich usually nauseates people.

That's a classic from your Mrs? You may have to elucidate.

Are you someone's Mrs? Very nearly a classic from you!.

Clue:- look at context of the context of half a dozen posts before this one.

[Gary29]

Mad Vera Eats Mouldy Jam Sandwiches and Unquestionably Niffy Poo

[Einion Yrth]

Moonhawk said:

A "planet" is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

Given the existence of leading and trailing trojan asteroids one might suggest that Jupiter fails c)

[Usget]

Not mine, but somebody's mrs I assume, in the lift just now.

"I was in this elevator earlier and it stopped at every floor on the way down. It was like Chinese water torture. You know, like they do in..... Vietnam or somewhere"

Yes I am in 'murica.

[Pothole]

CanAm said:

hairyben said:

sc0tt said:

hairyben said:

Frank7 said:

As someone who’d rather watch my kids race on roller skates, and would switch channels to “The Sky at Night” If the alternative was F1 racing, Mrs. Flightman sounds like quite a catch to me.

A ph'er who doesn't know what a McLaren F1 is?

Looks that way. Banish him.

A mole from mumsnet or brake perhaps?

To be fair the post that he referred to said F1 McLaren not a McLaren F1. If he'd not seen that on Flemke's thread then he can be forgiven.

Tsk.

[northwest monkey]

Not my Mrs, but from the Mother-in-law. To set the scene, we took our son to Disneyland Paris at half-term for his 10th birthday & decided to drive. We were booked on the Eurotunnel Sunday 29th October - the day the clocks went back.

MiL - "What time is your tunnel crossing?"

Me - "10.50 in the morning".

"But the clocks are going back"

"I know, it's still at 10.50 in the morning though"

"But won't it be an hour earlier?"

"No, it will still be at 10.50"

"Will it be an hour later then?"

"No, the clocks going back make no difference to anything other than an extra hour in bed. It's 10.50 the train leaves"

"Do you think you should check?"

"Speak to your daughter"

Painful at times.

[Evangelion]

My late mother had a standard lamp in the living room which was plugged into a timer so that it would come on as it got dark. Of course it needed changing at intervals throughout the year. Both lamp and timer now live with me and whenever I carry out a resetting I have a chuckle at this memory.

At the end of October or March, I would go round putting all the clocks in the house back, or forward, for her. Inevitably, one would get missed out, usually the one in the car but she was always adamant that I not forget the timer for the lamp. I tried many times, but was never able to make her understand that if you did forget, it would continue to come on at the correct time.