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Songs about the Stars, the Planets, and the Moon!
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Bud Brewster
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gord Green wrote:
Funny thing about "Uranus".

When Herschel discovered it he wanted to name it "George" After King George III....but he was outvoted by the London Academy of Science who decreed that planets must be named after Greek-Roman gods or dieties.

Yes, indeed, and I'm sure those folks were "royally thanked" for giving the solar system a planet whose name inspired so many wonderful jokes.

Like this one.

"How is the Enterprise like a roll of Charmin toiler paper?"

"Because they both go around Uranus and whip out little cling-ons!" Laughing

Of course, if Mr. Hershel had named the planet after a different king, it might have been almost as bad. Like King JOHN.
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Custer wrote:
. . . Ah well, plenty of other planets, and gods. I don't think there are any songs about Uranus yet, though...

Well, there's at least one . . . sort of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMYmtYF8MTQ

You're quite right, sir, Journey to the Seventh Planet belongs in our musical tribute to the cosmos. Fortunately that melodious tune is in our other sci-fi music library at this thread.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Somehow, the link that should take us to the other thread takes us on a Journey to the Seventh Planet again, which is a strange kind of "Rick roll"...

Hopefully Fireball XL-5 gets in there somewhere, with flying around the universe, the Milky Way, and indeed to the moon - since it was an easy rhyme!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Custer wrote:
Somehow, the link that should take us to the other thread takes us on a Journey to the Seventh Planet again, which is a strange kind of "Rick roll"...

Thanks! I fixed it. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great - and I see it does include that excellent Fireball XL-5 video performance. Since, as well as the Milky Way, the Universe, and the moon, we get Jupiter and Mars, rhymes with stars, it is hard to beat on this subject! Very Happy
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