My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos (planet mnemonic)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

It makes a difference to me because my whole life, Pluto has been a
planet, and now a small fraction (424 votes, out of a conference
attendance of 2500, and heavily skewed towards locals in Prague) of the
IAU says otherwise.  What do they know?  I've got Clyde Tombaugh's
autograph, and I wouldn't have bothered if all he had done was discover
a dirty slushball. (Except I've got David Levy, of Comet Shoemaker-Levy,
and Hale and Bopp, of Comet Hale-Bopp -- and comets are dirty slushballs
too).

Besides, it's pretty damn prescriptivist for them to tell me what a
planet is.

Definitions aren't up for a vote, I think.

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> (planet mnemonic)
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> Nachos (planet
>               mnemonic)
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> Can anyone explain why it makes any difference if Pluto is a planet?
>
> Bob
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> Subject: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos
> (planet mnemonic)
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> > Astral Tex-Mex. She used to serve us nine pizzas. How did
> this start?
> > ...
> > ...
> > (GOOGLE NEWS)
> > ...
> > "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us...Nachos"
> > Radio Iowa, IA - Aug 24, 2006
> > ... It was My Very Educated Mother Just Served...Us Nine Pizzas,"
> > Kawaler says. Kawaler's quick suggestion for a replacement
> word to end
> > that sentence is "Nachos.". ...
> > ...
> >
> > New planet definition demotes Pluto to dwarf Indiana Daily
> Student -
> > Aug 28, 2006 ... Pizzas.' Keeping with the theme of food
> that children
> > enjoy, I suggest the following for the new mnemonic: 'My
> Very Educated
> > Mother Just Served Us Nachos.". ...
> >
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