Join the Wake for Pluto's Departure!
UPDATED: As if poor Pluto needed to be upstaged! The supernova can be located here.
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From Parke Kunkle, President of the Minnesota Planetarium Society:
"Join us for a wake in honor of our dearly departed planet Pluto. It was a good planet, and although it will have new life in the ranks of dwarf planets, we'll remember it how it was in its full planetary glory.
"We'll also have a telescope on the roof to view the quarter moon. Parke may be persuaded to give a short eulogy."
Informal and impromptu
Food and drink available for purchase
Costumes not required but prize for best Pluto costume
Toasts to Pluto encouraged
Where: Joe's Garage (restaurant), Loring Park, Downtown Minneapolis.
When: Thursday, August 31, 7-9 PM
Who: All celestial bodies are welcome!
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From Parke Kunkle, President of the Minnesota Planetarium Society:
"Join us for a wake in honor of our dearly departed planet Pluto. It was a good planet, and although it will have new life in the ranks of dwarf planets, we'll remember it how it was in its full planetary glory.
"We'll also have a telescope on the roof to view the quarter moon. Parke may be persuaded to give a short eulogy."
Informal and impromptu
Food and drink available for purchase
Costumes not required but prize for best Pluto costume
Toasts to Pluto encouraged
Where: Joe's Garage (restaurant), Loring Park, Downtown Minneapolis.
When: Thursday, August 31, 7-9 PM
Who: All celestial bodies are welcome!
posted by Kristine | Thursday, August 24, 2006
9 Comments:
Regretabbly, I cannot attend but send my condolences. Pluto, we hardly knew ya!
And, if I was a Twin City resident, I suspect that I'd be a regular at any resturant with a Zappa theme...
Oh, drat. Well, maybe there's a wake in your area. (Where do you hail from, PiGuy?)
I gotta come up with a Pluto costume.
A little north of Baltimore, MD. Maybe I should arrange for something around here like that. Hmmmm...
And let me know how your Pluto costume search goes. I might want to borrow it.
I put a general distress call at the birthday party this weekend and my witty family came up with these:
A glow-in-the-dark dot on a shirt with the caption: “You’re STILL here” or “Yeah? Well to me, this is what the sun looks like,” or “Gas-bags blow up, eventually,”
or an image of Pluto on a shirt with a circle and slash over it,
or
an image of Pluto on a shirt with the words, “You bastards.”
Here's a few ideas that someone's captured on T-shirt.
http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2006/08/nerdtastic_tshirts_vote_for_pl.php
Sorry - not sure how to get a whole link in one comment box...
http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/
2006/08/
nerdtastic_tshirts_vote_for_pl.php
Those are fun. Some of them seem to be pre-delisting themed, though. (Your first link worked, because I get an e-mail notification.)
I don't know how to make it more visual...
Running out of time, yes, I am…
Oh, hell, I think I’ll just wear a fur coat over a nightgown.
Adieu, poor Pluto, we hardly knew thee.
dlaw@247msg.com
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