Fluffo, Limbo and now Pluto are gone. What’s next?

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I believe Fluffo is now the brand name of a mattress.
I’m not kidding.
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From this blog on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

According to reports, all souls in Limbo must find new housing. The half-way houses used by Friday meat-eating Catholics have been packed for forty years.

Apologies to Alonso Cano (1601-1667)

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“An illustration based on existing astronomical observations shows Pluto’s horizon spanning the foreground with Charon, as a darkened celestial body, in the distance.”

Meanwhile, Pluto is out of work and must vacate by September 30, 2006. REUTERS/SwRI/NASA/Handout

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The real reason for abandoning Pluto can be seen tin the above photograph. Every morning at 7:45 and every eveving at 5:00 the same scenario develops as the eight big planets fight to get to work and then to get home in traffic which become worse each year. Pluto was too out-of-the-way and hindered the ability of other planets to make time.

(AFP/NASA/File)

“Astronomers say Pluto is not a planet August 24, 2006

Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930.” 

Please find the entire article here.

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Is this to be the future of products with “O” brand name-endings?

The Omega Principle

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