In New England (and especially at a New England Dunkin’ Donuts) one can just say regular, this indicates an average amount of cream and sugar. And yes, I know Dunkin Donut;s is now just Dunkin, I am not down with that traitorous name change and denying the true purpose of a Dunkin Donuts. Although sadly their donuts have become less and less palatable over time as they try to reduce the calories.
I need to show my son the possum (he officially hates possums. Everyone knows this. His employees give him things with possums on them. He shows them off).
And I laughed out loud at the Pepsi/Coke/Dr. Pepper meme. (“You see, dear, when two classes love each other very much…”)
Wallcat #2 reportedly climbs humans to look upon the world from on high. Said critter lived in the hood of my jacket while I was feeding him and tryng to find him a home. Zoomies have commenced and not-as-teeny void is attempting to visit the speed of light. At three AM.
I’m not fond of them. But I miss the concept of the Possum Drop. Every New Year’s Eve in Brasstown, NC they used to place a (well-fed and cared for) possum in a Plexiglass box, run it up a pole and drop the box slowly at midnight. Of course PETA hated it, even though the possum liked it enough to turn up at the right time of year for his annual spa week.
I do wear my, “The Other, Other White Meat,” t-shirt even though I’m not hungry enough to want to sample possum.
Strong enough to lift a submarine, black enough to sing delta blues, sweet enough to make you chicken soup when you’re feeling under the weather, and big enough to make even the Karens think thrice.
First of all, it’s “Batmen,” not “Batmans.” That shouldn’t be even remotely difficult.
Second of all, can we re-design the Statue of Liberty to have a “buh-bye” action? Even better, design her to look like Sydney Sweeney? It might give the huddled masses a little more shade.
Third, an old bud of mine lives alone, and has started feeding neighborhood cats, and they all seem to know him, trust him, and like him. One night, another hungry critter showed up, and my bud reached down to give it a scritch in the dark. Imagine his surprise when he found out he was petting an opossum!
Leave the current one as is, and do another one pointing back home. I like the Indiana basketballer woman for that as in the meme, as she’s more statuesque (heh). If a curvy Sydney Sweeney one is desired we can do a third. A plethora of colossa (colosae? What’s feminine plural again?) would be acceptable, though not Sydney is a little thing at 5’3” in height, so her statue would be a bit less imposing vertically, if still casting much shade.
first, it’s a meme, so of course it has awful grammar. Second, let’s. Also, maybe a middle finger action. Do I ask too much? Third: sigh. we had a skunk in Manitou Springs. Same same.
I’m tired and sore after several days of heavy toil, and I read the first part of 3rd bullet as “Third, an old bud of mine lives alone, and I have started feeding him neighborhood cats”. Upon further review, I see that the cats are being served, not being served. Whew.
The Bernie three panel meme makes me think of the Grinch
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
Of course given Bernie has no heart to grow three sizes so he will NOT experience an epiphany like the Grinch did on the slopes of Mt. Krumpit. But he will sit and whine and that may be more entertaining. I now hear Bernie in Boris Karloff’s voice a major upgrade from his native whiny nasal accent.
There was much made back a couple decades ago that the big game releases were making way, way more individually and in aggregate than H’wood movie releases, and game studios started to be snapped up as easy-peasy cashflow generators. Of course this meant games became targets just as movie productions already were, with the highly visible AAA acquisitions the highest profile targets of all, and their new owners an easier target for the grifters and colored smoke sellers.
And as a result here we are, with “roll left and die” and “go woke, go broke” in the FO phase in both industries, massive layoffs, relocations, and M&A consolidation.
And flops – don’t ignore the flops. Personally I am skeptical that even “hits” like Nolans’s Odyssey actually broke even, but obvious flops like Supergirl ($250 million to make and market), the new Halo game release ($300 to $400 million dev only) and the new Wolverine game ($305 million), which looks to be flailing with bad reviews, are not corporate profit-friendly results.
Sure, the Spider-Man movie cleaned up for Sony, but that’s one in how many?
The thing that will in the end save gaming is the lower entry cost, as tiny nerds-locked-in-a-room game developers can still hit massive industry-stomping home runs. We’re not quite there yet with movies, but from what I am seeing we will be in the next five years. Then both game studios and movie studios will be in a quandary: Do they accept becoming simply distribution services? Or will they try to chase some other business model?
Sure, but That Guy was doing it old school. The next stretch will have people doing full up movies fully AI generated with no capital investment in lights and soundstages and office equipment (the stuff that got That Guy in trouble, well, plus pissing of Paramount lawyers – That Guy is the reason there was not one more ‘season’ of Star Trek Continues), just teh cost of compute power in the cloud somewhere and of AI tokens.
Go look on YT for stuff with “Higgsfield Global Film Festival” in the title – here’s one I found tonight:
That might be part of it. But part of it appears to be that the field is drawing people who literally do not like the games that gamers like. You can see this in their social media posts that complain about all of the things that tend to appear in popular games. Then they try and change successful long-running franchises to things that they like saying that they’re “expanding the audience”, and alienate the people who made the franchise popular in the first place.
Why do they get involved in making games if they don’t actually like the games? The main guess that people have come up with is that they know games are popular, and want to be associated with that popularity. So they get hired onto those projects as a prestige sort of thing.
And yes, the low bar to entry means that it’s not hard for a small team to create a good game (and it’s even easier now with AI). The main problems in that case become distribution, and getting people interested in your game. Developers have to go elsewhere to find a publisher. Believe it or not, this was how Electronic Arts got its start waaaaay back in the day. They published and distributed fun games made by quirky independent developers. Now, however, it can all be handled by digital distribution platforms, such as Steam (though many developers still choose to work with a separate publisher, so presumably there’s an advantage to it). That leaves getting interest in the game prior to release. That’s on the developer, and will always rely on at least a little luck.
There was a push a few years ago for “game developer” degrees In college curricula. I assume many of those drank the indoctrination kool-aid and were launched into jobs at the big AAA game developers via DEI mandates to poison the well and “fix” all those icky gamer things.
I have seen commentary noting gaming was (and remains) one of the last remaining male-centric bastions, so obviously game development needed HR Karen game devs to “fix” that. And who needs those icky boyz when the new super-inclusive games will expand games appeal to the “modern audience” [Critical Drinker voice].
Their problem, of course, is that the “modern audience” does not actually exist, and since a fantasy construct of their theology can’t buy any games, they just don’t sell. So they got one shot and it failed, and now they’ve been laid off and are back to being baristas.
I have seen rumors that at $1.7 billion [Dr. Evil voice] total box office to date, it made a lot of money for Nolan due to clauses in his deal which gave him escalating fractions of the total gross as the movie reached certain total gross milestones, but not so much for Universal, who were basically desperate to sign Nolan and so kinda gave away the store.
Basically the amount needed to “break even” (i.e. the total needed for the half of the box office total which the studio gets to pay for production costs plus marketing costs plus the various cut-of-gross deal payouts) jumped just out of reach of “even” as it made more and more at the box office.
The Spider-Man star is rumored to have a similar escalating-fraction-of-gross deal with Sony, but it is said to not be nearly as generous as Nolan’s deal with Universal.
The regulation I want to see put on AI is to ban any direct government usage of it. The Social Credit Nanny State temptation would be too much for nosy bureaucrats.
Which is why AI is not the issue. Putting the tools in the hands of honest people is the issue, and removing the hands (or heads) of those who MISuse it is the issue.
According To Hoyt 
I take my coffee in tiramisu, thank you very much.
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Coffee?
Seriously. Very seriously.
As dark as that look you’re giving me.
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Internally or intravenously. Pour it on me if you have to, I’ll absorb it by transpiration like a leaf.
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Coffee? Like my wife: Strong and (nearly) pure and enough to fill both hands.
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“…like an H1B software engineer, but not at all sycophantic.”
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And not a managers cousin.
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I thought the new Dukes of Hazard one was the best this week. Show with those for actors would be a hit for the next 12 years.
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They missed the chance to cast Donald Trump as Uncle Jesse.
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Yeah, I was wondering where Trump was in that otherwise excellent meme.
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Coffee? Hot, dark, and strong. Or, (though it doesn’t fit the meme) my summer drink is like my ex-girlfriend’s soul- cold, black and bitter.
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In New England (and especially at a New England Dunkin’ Donuts) one can just say regular, this indicates an average amount of cream and sugar. And yes, I know Dunkin Donut;s is now just Dunkin, I am not down with that traitorous name change and denying the true purpose of a Dunkin Donuts. Although sadly their donuts have become less and less palatable over time as they try to reduce the calories.
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“Cold, dark, and bitter” would fit, though.
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Had a fraternity brother who liked his “a la Eldridge Cleaver” – black and bitter. Hank later became an SFPD lieutenant.
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I need to show my son the possum (he officially hates possums. Everyone knows this. His employees give him things with possums on them. He shows them off).
And I laughed out loud at the Pepsi/Coke/Dr. Pepper meme. (“You see, dear, when two classes love each other very much…”)
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Little Pickle also hates Possums. Um… Older Pickle also.
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Wallcat #2 reportedly climbs humans to look upon the world from on high. Said critter lived in the hood of my jacket while I was feeding him and tryng to find him a home. Zoomies have commenced and not-as-teeny void is attempting to visit the speed of light. At three AM.
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I’m not fond of them. But I miss the concept of the Possum Drop. Every New Year’s Eve in Brasstown, NC they used to place a (well-fed and cared for) possum in a Plexiglass box, run it up a pole and drop the box slowly at midnight. Of course PETA hated it, even though the possum liked it enough to turn up at the right time of year for his annual spa week.
I do wear my, “The Other, Other White Meat,” t-shirt even though I’m not hungry enough to want to sample possum.
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Ah, the cat requests – time to reread “The Door into Summer.”
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Always, and hey, me too.
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How do I take my coffee?
NOW!
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Strong enough to lift a submarine, black enough to sing delta blues, sweet enough to make you chicken soup when you’re feeling under the weather, and big enough to make even the Karens think thrice.
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The nice thing about elevator jokes is that they work on multiple levels.
That doesn’t look like a Highlander.
Alright, why does the picture of Freud have a joke about my mother?
Did you hear about the fundraiser concert for the British Navy? They’re calling it Lime-aid.
Sounds like mental AI guy has his head in the clouds. Also reminds me of the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
Discount Circumcisions! 10% off!
Dr. Campbell’s not calling for ethnic cleansing, right?
Refuse to be manipulated by media: leverages popular media to make its argument
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Tough on a herd animal when there can be only one…
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Elevator jokes are antisocial, because you HAVE to push buttons . . .
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Don’t have anything to say. Haven’t had my coffee.
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Leave the current one as is, and do another one pointing back home. I like the Indiana basketballer woman for that as in the meme, as she’s more statuesque (heh). If a curvy Sydney Sweeney one is desired we can do a third. A plethora of colossa (colosae? What’s feminine plural again?) would be acceptable, though not Sydney is a little thing at 5’3” in height, so her statue would be a bit less imposing vertically, if still casting much shade.
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You know, the statue’s resemblance to Sophie Cunningham completely eluded me! I knew she looked familiar, but couldn’t place the face.
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first, it’s a meme, so of course it has awful grammar. Second, let’s. Also, maybe a middle finger action. Do I ask too much? Third: sigh. we had a skunk in Manitou Springs. Same same.
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I’m tired and sore after several days of heavy toil, and I read the first part of 3rd bullet as “Third, an old bud of mine lives alone, and I have started feeding him neighborhood cats”. Upon further review, I see that the cats are being served, not being served. Whew.
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Well, while he’s both laconic and sardonic, he doesn’t actually come from Melmac!
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The Bernie three panel meme makes me think of the Grinch
Of course given Bernie has no heart to grow three sizes so he will NOT experience an epiphany like the Grinch did on the slopes of Mt. Krumpit. But he will sit and whine and that may be more entertaining. I now hear Bernie in Boris Karloff’s voice a major upgrade from his native whiny nasal accent.
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That is the best (and, IMHO, the only really useful*) application for a Hi Point pistol I’ve ever seen.
*Except (theoretically, of course) having it as a drop piece in case of a defensive shooting . . .
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Even after my coffee, and several other people’s rations of coffee, I’m not crushing it today.
Off to crinkle a few things.
Or maybe ever so slightly bend.
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The Waffle-House Hi Point wins the internets for today. I lol-ed.
Honorable mention to Canada looking at fat ugly Europe with Sidney Sweeny USA standing right there. That’s high art.
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The video game “modern audience” meme is right on. Big companies are literally going under right now because of it.
Of course, it also applies to most any entertainment media right now.
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There was much made back a couple decades ago that the big game releases were making way, way more individually and in aggregate than H’wood movie releases, and game studios started to be snapped up as easy-peasy cashflow generators. Of course this meant games became targets just as movie productions already were, with the highly visible AAA acquisitions the highest profile targets of all, and their new owners an easier target for the grifters and colored smoke sellers.
And as a result here we are, with “roll left and die” and “go woke, go broke” in the FO phase in both industries, massive layoffs, relocations, and M&A consolidation.
And flops – don’t ignore the flops. Personally I am skeptical that even “hits” like Nolans’s Odyssey actually broke even, but obvious flops like Supergirl ($250 million to make and market), the new Halo game release ($300 to $400 million dev only) and the new Wolverine game ($305 million), which looks to be flailing with bad reviews, are not corporate profit-friendly results.
Sure, the Spider-Man movie cleaned up for Sony, but that’s one in how many?
The thing that will in the end save gaming is the lower entry cost, as tiny nerds-locked-in-a-room game developers can still hit massive industry-stomping home runs. We’re not quite there yet with movies, but from what I am seeing we will be in the next five years. Then both game studios and movie studios will be in a quandary: Do they accept becoming simply distribution services? Or will they try to chase some other business model?
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To my point about movies and how close we are:
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Or heck, look at Axanar. I’d rather watch that than anything the actual franchise has had on offer.
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Sure, but That Guy was doing it old school. The next stretch will have people doing full up movies fully AI generated with no capital investment in lights and soundstages and office equipment (the stuff that got That Guy in trouble, well, plus pissing of Paramount lawyers – That Guy is the reason there was not one more ‘season’ of Star Trek Continues), just teh cost of compute power in the cloud somewhere and of AI tokens.
Go look on YT for stuff with “Higgsfield Global Film Festival” in the title – here’s one I found tonight:
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That might be part of it. But part of it appears to be that the field is drawing people who literally do not like the games that gamers like. You can see this in their social media posts that complain about all of the things that tend to appear in popular games. Then they try and change successful long-running franchises to things that they like saying that they’re “expanding the audience”, and alienate the people who made the franchise popular in the first place.
Why do they get involved in making games if they don’t actually like the games? The main guess that people have come up with is that they know games are popular, and want to be associated with that popularity. So they get hired onto those projects as a prestige sort of thing.
And yes, the low bar to entry means that it’s not hard for a small team to create a good game (and it’s even easier now with AI). The main problems in that case become distribution, and getting people interested in your game. Developers have to go elsewhere to find a publisher. Believe it or not, this was how Electronic Arts got its start waaaaay back in the day. They published and distributed fun games made by quirky independent developers. Now, however, it can all be handled by digital distribution platforms, such as Steam (though many developers still choose to work with a separate publisher, so presumably there’s an advantage to it). That leaves getting interest in the game prior to release. That’s on the developer, and will always rely on at least a little luck.
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There was a push a few years ago for “game developer” degrees In college curricula. I assume many of those drank the indoctrination kool-aid and were launched into jobs at the big AAA game developers via DEI mandates to poison the well and “fix” all those icky gamer things.
I have seen commentary noting gaming was (and remains) one of the last remaining male-centric bastions, so obviously game development needed HR Karen game devs to “fix” that. And who needs those icky boyz when the new super-inclusive games will expand games appeal to the “modern audience” [Critical Drinker voice].
Their problem, of course, is that the “modern audience” does not actually exist, and since a fantasy construct of their theology can’t buy any games, they just don’t sell. So they got one shot and it failed, and now they’ve been laid off and are back to being baristas.
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And I’d say the current gen of AAA game devs just don’t like gamers.
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Of course not. Gamers need to learn the “proper” way to have fun.
I believe our hostess has a saying/expression for the AAA devs:
“These are my middle fingers.”
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Sure. GamerGate was one of the most successful pushbacks against woke nonsense pre-Trump. The Left doesn’t like wrongthink.
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I heard Nolan’s Odyssey was like Cameron’s Avatar movies, made a lot of money but no cultural impact.
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I have seen rumors that at $1.7 billion [Dr. Evil voice] total box office to date, it made a lot of money for Nolan due to clauses in his deal which gave him escalating fractions of the total gross as the movie reached certain total gross milestones, but not so much for Universal, who were basically desperate to sign Nolan and so kinda gave away the store.
Basically the amount needed to “break even” (i.e. the total needed for the half of the box office total which the studio gets to pay for production costs plus marketing costs plus the various cut-of-gross deal payouts) jumped just out of reach of “even” as it made more and more at the box office.
The Spider-Man star is rumored to have a similar escalating-fraction-of-gross deal with Sony, but it is said to not be nearly as generous as Nolan’s deal with Universal.
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It did get me to pull my copy of the Fitzgerald translation nd have a go at it. I don’t remember any of this stuff! And goodness, Athena gets around.
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Some of the foreign entertainment is still excellent.
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Isn’t Effing, South Carolina where they can the boil peanuts?
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Now I have TWO weeks of memes to catch up on. Sigh…
Had to stop to print the very first one this week for my office door.
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While I’d print the last one of the coffee sequence. It’s all good. honest….
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John Dewey: Saying the quiet part out loud.
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Coffee? Straight, no chaser.
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SFBS!
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Collect the whole set — you’re missing Woody and David.
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Fox texts: Why are both of them in the same (or near-same) bedroom? Sends off Ctrl-Alt universe vibes.
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Or it is consistent with both the meme type and the Hollywood use of splitscreen for bedroom phone calls since the 1950s.
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The regulation I want to see put on AI is to ban any direct government usage of it. The Social Credit Nanny State temptation would be too much for nosy bureaucrats.
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They are using to to trace back the benefit fraud back to the organizing culprits.
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DOGE wasn’t career bureaucrats working for the system. Big difference.
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Which is why AI is not the issue. Putting the tools in the hands of honest people is the issue, and removing the hands (or heads) of those who MISuse it is the issue.
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Who trains the AI? Who filters the data?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/09/18/3-different-mechanisms-left-wing-groups-use-to-influence-ai/
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Will it help the FBI ladies if I state they can share? ;-P
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I feel like the jokes would be funnier if the genie yeeted Uranus instead.
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Oh, one would have to be very careful in pronunciation asking for that one.
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“Scientists Can’t Find Uranus!”
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