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    Why The Sun Is A Delinquent Parent

    The Sun Is Weaker Than It's Been In 80 Years, Apparently
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/29/09

    In reply to Why The Sun Is A Delinquent Parent
    What can you expect the sun to do when we keep running away, coming back, running away, coming back. We want to be independent, but we also want someone to do our laundry and provide a home cooked meal on the weekends.


    If we were willing to live by the Sun's rules, we could live in its house like our little sibling Mercury.


    Or if we were really willing to go out on our own, we'd suck it up and cross the asteroid belt like big sibs Jupiter and Saturn.


    But no, we just want it all. Neglected yet spoiled middle child that we are.

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    06/29/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: we're still beter than venus with all of her goth makeup and the brooding and the poems. we'll move out and get a real job when she lays off the sulfuric acid!
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    Image of Goodnightbabytron Goodnightbabytron
    06/29/09

    @tetracycloide: Or that useless layabout Mars, still carrying the scars from when it had a life but now all strung out an listless. We keep making these remote attempts to connect with it, but when we try to get beneath the dull surface, all we find is either dirt or ice...hard to tell.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/29/09

    @Goodnightbabytron: I still feel bad about what happened to l'il ol Pluto. Cast out while still so small. Thrown out on it's own, into the dark and cold night, to make it's own way. Last I heard, it was straight-up disowned.


    Just not right.

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Sun Is Weaker Than It's Been In 80 Years, Apparently
    I'm more worried by that picture. Our sun has turned green!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/11/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Just a little too much Mountain Dew Extreme Green edition.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    05/11/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Where does this leave Superman?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/11/09

    @AngryEddy: HE just has a permanent erection now. And he discovered the ability to sing any television theme song perfectly.


    Stupid fucking kryptonians.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/11/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: It's off to see the wizard?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Sun Is Weaker Than It's Been In 80 Years, Apparently
    Cue the quirky band of bickering scientists who build a craft that's powered on heat, and travel into the very center of the sun and restart it with fusion bombs, but must sacrifice everyone in the crew except the super attractive couple who are rescued by space whales.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/11/09

    @BadUncle: Is this a Mel Brooks version of Sunshine?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/11/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: I was thinking Albert Brooks' remake of The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
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    Image of 0kami 0kami
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Sun Is Weaker Than It's Been In 80 Years, Apparently
    The sun's cycle is late? Uh oh..better get that solar pregnancy test out.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/11/09

    @0kami: "Awww, it's like a widdle white dwarf!"
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