it's funny, I still refer to the command key on the left side of the keyboard (the one I tend to use) as the "open apple" key. The one on the right is the "closed apple", since the keyboard on the old apple//c had two different symbols, one a solid apple and the other just an outline.
william herschel (an obnoxiously patriotic british astronomer) was originally going to name the planet after the king of england at the time--george. did we really need a planet named george? granted, uranus is debatably worse, but at least somebody talked him into keeping with the tradition of naming planets after greek/roman gods.
of course, he then blew that to hell when he started naming the moons he discovered after shakespearean characters, but you cant always win, i guess...
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it's funny, I still refer to the command key on the left side of the keyboard (the one I tend to use) as the "open apple" key. The one on the right is the "closed apple", since the keyboard on the old apple //c had two different symbols, one a solid apple and the other just an outline.
right up there with "bohemien" rhapsody, im sure. really, spell em right, you might have better luck...
jag-wire. jaguar. jag-y-re.
i dont get it. maybe its the native californian in me, but i dont know how else to pronounce it.
so how about "MoonChild"?
oh, wait. thats from 'The NeverEnding Story', nevermind...
another comic thats frighteningly appropriate
william herschel (an obnoxiously patriotic british astronomer) was originally going to name the planet after the king of england at the time--george. did we really need a planet named george? granted, uranus is debatably worse, but at least somebody talked him into keeping with the tradition of naming planets after greek/roman gods. of course, he then blew that to hell when he started naming the moons he discovered after shakespearean characters, but you cant always win, i guess...