I;ve known about Uranus since I was a kid, but never picked up on the off-color pun until Carl Sagan started pronouncing it

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ER — 9/1/2013 9:21:05 PM (archived)

I've known about 'Your A nuss' since I was a kid, but never picked up on the off-color pun until Carl Sagan started pronouncing it 'YOUR a nuss' on Cosmos.

I immediately knew why he was doing, and that it was going to have precisely the opposite effect he intended.

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Trojan found close to Uranus - Ainz - 8/30/2013 4:57:26 PM
- Best zone post about Uranus - Ainz - 9/1/2013 7:56:59 PM
  - I;ve known about Uranus since I was a kid, but never picked up on the off-color pun until Carl Sagan started pronouncing it - ER - 9/1/2013 9:21:05 PM
- I guess you could call it "space junk". - ER - 8/31/2013 1:05:58 PM
- No surprise, spinning the way it does. - podrock - 8/31/2013 2:32:27 AM
- Under ideal conditions, Uranus is a naked eye object using perverted vision. - ER - 8/31/2013 2:09:20 AM
- Re: Trojan found close to Uranus - podrock - 8/31/2013 1:26:05 AM
- Along with toilet paper tail. - Jody - 8/30/2013 10:56:50 PM
- That sounds like a headline from "The Onion". - ER - 8/30/2013 5:32:53 PM
  - My reaction was "a-ha! the smoking gun!" - Robert - 8/30/2013 5:38:58 PM

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