Thursday, August 24, 2006

[410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths]

[1814 - British sack Washington, DC]

[1890 - Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic swimmer, surfer, born in Haleakala, Hawaii]

Alas, Poor Pluto

Alas, poor Pluto, we knew you so well,
With a job description: "In Charge of Hell."
Bureaucrats demoted you from planetary status.
Now you wear a T-shirt that says, "He Hate Us."

Religion has its dogma, Government has its rules,
Science has its orthodoxy; All of them are fools.
As you travel around in your cold, icy orbit,
They hit you a shot, and you couldn't absorb it.

Once a proud planet; now just a big sno-cone.
Brown found one bigger; it cost you your throne.
As we scan the heavens for new objects in the skies,
Think of millions of textbooks that must be revised.

William's Whimsical Words:

We thought we knew our own Solar System.
Who was offended by Pluto, and dismissed him?

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