Word: uranus
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Everything is better with twins, they say. But this week, Gemini, The new moon, sun, Jupiter, Mercury, and Uranus are all up in your tenth house of glory. You’re going to need to go from seeing double to a one-track mind in no time. Kick your social side to the curb or kiss success goodbye...
Michael turns a conversation about toilet paper into a conversation about planets because of a certain homonym for Uranus...
...science weren't wholly separate yet: they were seen as complementary ways of piercing the veil of everyday phenomena. William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and the Shelleys (Percy Bysshe and Mary) followed scientific breakthroughs like sports scores. Holmes traces echoes of the astronomical work of William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, through Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner ("the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward") and into Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer": "Then I felt like some watcher of the skies/When a new planet swims into...
...Christian improv: "No, no, can't say that, nope, maybe if ... no." In response to a game in which we had to communicate a murder scenario to one another in gibberish, our audience shouted its increasingly bland ideas with fervor: "Turtle!" "Balloon!" "IHOP!" "Bowling!" When one sinner yelled "Uranus!" our troupe member repeated it as "Urahnus." We even had to change the classic "guy walks into a bar, and the bartender says" scenario into "guy walks into a restaurant, and the manager says." This was one tight ahnus-ed group. (See the top 10 religion stories...
...Crash of rejection, weaving together nine interconnected tales of relationship woe and leaving no stone unturned in its effort to explore every facet of heterosexual mating. However, its viewpoint is severely restricted; all of its women love too much, while the men seem to be from somewhere around Uranus...