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Post by agoodcuppa on Aug 25, 2006 11:54:00 GMT
Further to Pluto losing its designation as a planet, a former colleague of mine offered this little gem, I thought I'd pass it on.
There are only two planets,one is the planet Earth, and the other is where all the nutters, and the politically correct idiots come from.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2006 17:37:51 GMT
Disney have issued a slighly amusing press statement from the Seven Dwarfs, about the downgrading of Pluto to a Dwarf Planet:-
“Although we think it's DOPEY that Pluto has been downgraded to a dwarf planet, which has made some people GRUMPY and others just SLEEPY, we are not BASHFUL in saying we would be HAPPY if Disney's Pluto would join us as an 8th dwarf. We think this is just what the DOC ordered and is nothing to SNEEZE at.”
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Post by Oracle on Aug 25, 2006 17:42:52 GMT
Yahoo were saying it was "Goofy" to downgrade Pluto!
Poor Clyde Tombaugh..he must be looking down and thinking that his work based on pertubations of Uranus and the hard effort at the blink-comparator were all in vain! He should have discovered it in 1919 but there was a fault on the plate.
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Post by donnytom on Aug 30, 2006 10:25:41 GMT
What will happen to Holst's The Planets? Is it now to be The Planets And A Little Bit Extra? ;D
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Post by Tubeboy on Aug 30, 2006 10:30:15 GMT
Holst did the planets, except Pluto which was written in 2000 by the English composer Colin Matthews.
Incidentally Pluto was discovered in 1930, Holst died in 1934.
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Post by donnytom on Aug 30, 2006 10:34:16 GMT
So it was. After writing that post I had a feeling that was the case, and sure enough my 1958 (I think) EMI/BBC LP of The Planets features no Pluto. Oops.
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Post by Tubeboy on Aug 30, 2006 10:35:47 GMT
Who is the conductor on that? Boult? Beecham?
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Post by donnytom on Aug 30, 2006 10:46:21 GMT
What it says:
HOLST
THE PLANETS, OP.32
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
with BBC Women's Chorus
conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
P.1958
on the EMI Eminence label.
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Post by Tubeboy on Aug 30, 2006 10:52:47 GMT
What it says: HOLST THE PLANETS, OP.32 BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA with BBC Women's Chorus conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT P.1958 on the EMI Eminence label. Funny, I was going to put Sargent! Havent listened to the planets for a while, more of a baroque fan. Simon Rattle has brought out a recording of the planets recently, some are saying it is the definitive recording of the work. His Mahler 2 certainly is! |
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