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heartless guttersnipe (parsimonia) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-22 19:31:00

Current music:	metric - dr blind
Entry tags:	in-joke: crack, publisher: dc comics, title: superdictionary

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	timemonkey 2009-05-22 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	Uranus perhaps? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seriousfic 2009-05-22 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sorry, timemonkey. Astronomers changed the name of Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Now it's called Urrectum. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timemonkey 2009-05-22 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	They did? tell me there are at least still whalers on the moon! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-05-22 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Evidence is inconclusive. They may be gone, or they may just be hiding deep in the porous tunnels of the swiss-cheese core. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-05-22 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	Dammit, Bluefall, I was gonna make a cheese joke! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-05-22 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	Mwahaha. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	timemonkey 2009-05-22 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	Well, as long as they don;t find the nuklear pile we'll be okay. (Reply to this) (Parent)

bluefall
2009-05-22 07:40 pm UTC (link)

You know, my whole life, everyone I know, and everyone on TV and documentaries and everything, has always pronounced that planet "YUR-ehn-us," unless they're actively being funny. Like, it is my understanding that you must intentionally distort the word to make it dirty - I found "yur-AY-nus" to be really, *reaching* for a joke, like thinking just a picture of a hot dog is inherently hilarious for being vaguely phallic, even when I was eight.

But that seems implausible to me now, given the frequency and context with which I see that play on words made. Is this just a localization thing? Is "yur-AY-nus" actually a widely recognized legit standard pronunciation?

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timemonkey
2009-05-22 07:44 pm UTC (link)

From what I've heard it used to be UR -AY-nus but was changed to YUR-ehn-us. But peopel pronounce it either way and always have.

I only picked it because I'd been watching Sailor Moon S again so when I think gay and planets I think Uranus and Neptune. Also Saturn but I'm less sure why, possibly because when iw a slittle and only the first Sailor Moon series had been released I made up my own sailor scout that was a boy and was Sailor Saturn. It's hard when you hang out with girls that want to play girl shows, I didn't want to be Tuxedo Mask.

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bluefall
2009-05-22 07:51 pm UTC (link)

Well, Hotaru's pretty gay for Chibiusa (allowing for their age bracket of course), so Saturn's a fair pick too. Actually I can't think of any planets that you can't argue are gay from a Sailormoon perspective. Maybe Pluto, but even then you've got the whole co-parenting thing in the manga.

I didn't want to be Tuxedo Mask.

Don't blame you. I can't honestly think why anyone would.

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timemonkey
2009-05-22 07:56 pm UTC (link)

It was kinda funny though, my Sailor Saturn's powers turned out like the one Sailor Mars had once she gained her Star powers upgrade. Like almost exactly.

Closest thing we ever got to a guy Sailor Scout (and why the hell wasn't he one? he was linked to the Earth after all) and he was completely outclassed by the time Venus showed up. Hell, guy got beat by oldschool Mercury and her fog bubbles.

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	interrobamf 2009-05-23 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	I can't honestly think why anyone would. I did. I was a pretty stupid kid when it came to fiction, all things considered. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	leikomgwtfbbq 2009-05-22 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	Same here, re: "when I think gay and planets, I think Uranus and Neptune." I always wanted to be Sailor Jupiter when I was little and playing Sailor Moon. ... Later on, when I saw Sailor Moon S, I wanted to date both Uranus and Neptune. ~~stfu, don't judge me~~ (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-05-22 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	I liked Sailor Jupiter too! But probably only because she had brown hair and green eyes like me. IIRC, she also was not as annoying as Sailor Moon. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timemonkey 2009-05-23 07:33 am UTC (link)
	Everyone knows Jupiter was awsome. The only Sailor to whoop ass even before she got her powers. (Reply to this) (Parent)

timemonkey
2009-05-22 10:07 pm UTC (link)

You think a guy that made up his own sailor scout so he could play imaginary Sailor Moon is going to judge you?

My only regret is that there weren't more heroic men for me to be into. I mean, my selection was Darien (cute but vastly outclassed and not particularily impressive to begin with), the evil guys that were only around for a dozen episodes, did horrible things then died, or the cat.

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merseybeatler
2009-05-22 07:55 pm UTC (link)

I only ever heard 'yur-AY-nus' up until eigth grade or so. Everyone around here pronounces it that way, but that may be because most people here are dirty hicks. No one really laughs when you say it anymore, because we all got used to it years ago. It always kind of stands out when people say 'YUR-ehn-us', like they're intentionally changing it to avoid snickers. Which they are, of course, but...yeah.

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	parsimonia 2009-05-22 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	I think I've only ever heard it pronounced "yur-AY-nus" or "YUR-AY-nus". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	merseybeatler 2009-05-22 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah...I mean, it's either that ('your anus') or 'YUR-eh-nus', which actually sounds a lot like 'urine-us'.... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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	bluejaybirdie 2009-05-22 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	I've only ever heard "yur-ANY-nus", but it could be the Southern accents down here (although where I live the accent is unnoticible, for the most part). I didn't know it could be pronounced "yur-ehn-us". The more you know, I guess... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Comment Fail bluejaybirdie 2009-05-22 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	"yur-AY-nus" facepalm* (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-05-23 03:26 pm UTC (link)
	"Urine-us" is really only slightly better. (Reply to this) (Parent)

mcbangle
2009-11-07 02:32 am UTC (link)

I don't know if it's a local thing or a generational thing (no idea whether you're younger or older than me), but growing up in the 1980s I only ever heard people pronounce it yur-AY-nus, and not in a snicker-and-giggle way. It was just the way the name of the 7th planet was pronounced. I distinctly remember hearing a science teacher pronounce it "Urine-us" in 5th grade and thinking he sounded a little snooty. It's only been in the past 15 years or so that I've heard the "Urine-us" pronunciation being used more frequently than "yur-AY-nus".

(And in my head, it's still pronounced yur-AY-nus, not b/c I like to think it's "dirty" or something but b/c that's just the way I always pronounced it)

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	mcbangle 2009-11-07 02:35 am UTC (link)
	Oops, I came across this link by accident and didn't realize it was 6 months old!! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-11-07 02:37 am UTC (link)
	It's okay! I'm actually going through my inbox now and clearing out e-mails, some of which are 6 months old. =) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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