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My God, it's full of THREAD BOMBS!
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Did we ever have this:
Or this:
No, but those do depress me ever so slightly.
^BOTH of them 
The first one is supposed to be a put-down, but the second is supposed to be an ego-booster!
Nice image if you like this sort of thing:
Historical figures.
The first one is supposed to be a put-down, but the second is supposed to be an ego-booster!
Nice image if you like this sort of thing:
Historical figures.
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Or this:
I love this one.
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Nice image if you like this sort of thing:
Historical figures.
And this one is going to be my wallpaper. That is awesome!
^It is pretty cool - I just wish I could name half of the people 
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(And why is Peter Ustinov wearing a toga?)
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(And why is Peter Ustinov wearing a toga?)
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^It is pretty cool - I just wish I could name half of the people
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(And why is Peter Ustinov wearing a toga?)
Same here. I was looking at the picture and pointing at each historical figure. I was like "Einstein! Hitler! Beethoven! ...uh... don't know, don't know, don't know... don't know... Stalin! Freud! Lincoln! Ghandi! Shirley Temple!... don't know... don't know...uh... some guy... Lenin! Mao! Prince Charles! Charlie Chaplin! Saddam Hussein! William Shakespeare! Um... someone... ugly... hairy... Van Gogh! Genghis Khan! Che Guevera! Napoleon! Bruce Lee! Yassir Arafat! Elvis! ...weird...guy... uh, don't know, don't know, don't care, don't know..." and so on.
^And how come actors are portrayed as characters they've played?
^It is pretty cool - I just wish I could name half of the people
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(And why is Peter Ustinov wearing a toga?)
Um....re-enacting his role from Logan's Run?
(sorry; that's all I've got
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You're unique..... just like everybody else.Or this:
^It is pretty cool - I just wish I could name half of the people
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(And why is Peter Ustinov wearing a toga?)
Um....re-enacting his role from Logan's Run?
(sorry; that's all I've got
Quo Vadis ?
Did we ever have this:
There are NINE planets, damn it!
Did we ever have this:
There are NINE planets, damn it!
Pluto is considered a dwarf planet since 2006. So there's 8 now.
Actually, since those "poxy skywatchers" are the people who have studied these things for years and have some very good reasons to consider Pluto a dwarf planet, they get to decide how many planets there are. Just like how doctors get to decide the name of diseases and biologists get to decide the name of organisms.
They didn't rename Pluto, they redefined what it is, which is not the same.
Okay, so my examples weren't so great, but my point still stands.
TBH I can't really see how anyone could claim there's nine planets. Even if you don't agree with the IAU's new definition of planet, surely you'd have to consider Eris a planet too? It's larger, more massive, and in a similarly weird orbit as Pluto. The same thing goes for the other 3 dwarf planets. So if you consider Pluto to still be a planet, wouldn't you logically have to consider there to be 10-13 planets?
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