There was a programme about Holst and the Planet Suite on Radio 4 this afternoon. One of the guests told a little anecdote about a rehearsal. He wouldn't say who the conductor was who said:

"Before we proceed I'd like to pick a couple of hairy bits out of Uranus"

Apparently they had to abandon the rehearsal :-)

I'm sorry but I love smut

That's a classic. It's the sort of thing that will really happen...

Many people don't realise he was actually British!

Heard similar about an astronomer who told someone there was a ring of debris around Uranus.

Whomever named that planet has alot to answer for.

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Edit - just in case anyone is interested in Uranaus. Here.

Whomever named that planet has alot to answer for.

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Edit - just in case anyone is interested in Uranaus. Here.

Is that the Aussie version?

lol, eek's sharp today

The wiki link is interesting...

I don't know why this topic was closed...

Maybe an accidental slip of a mod's mouse... topic re-opened.

Thought all this talk of Uranus may have got some of the mods over excited JD.

Thought all this talk of Uranus may have got some of the mods over excited JD.

Urectum would be so much more polite

Urarshole just wouldn't have worked!

From the Wiki

"Uranus in culture

In astrology, the planet Uranus (Uranus's astrological symbol.svg) is the ruling planet of Aquarius. Since Uranus is colored cyan and Uranus is associated with electricity, the color electric blue, a color close to cyan, is associated with the sign Aquarius.[116] (See Uranus in astrology)

Uranus, the Magician is a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets.

The planet Uranus is associated with homosexuality because, based on Greek mythology about Aphrodite, beginning in the late 19th century, the term Uranian has been used to denote homosexuals.[117] The final show of the Cockettes, a San Francisco drag troupe, took place in the summer of 1972; it was called Journey to the Center of Uranus, reflecting the homophone "your anus." In that show drag queen Lady Divine performed her song "The Crab at the Center of Uranus" while dressed as a lobster.[118] The Club Uranus was a popular queer dance club in that took place on Sunday nights at the End Up in San Francisco in the early 1990s; it lasted from December 1989 to December 1992.[119]

Operation Uranus was the successful military operation in World War II by the Soviet army to take back Stalingrad and marked the turning point in the land war against the Wehrmacht."

As an off topic aside I'm an Aquarius so apparently my ruling planet is your anus

I'm sorry but this is just too Julian and Sandy

Urectum would be so much more polite

Different parts of the body mate, as a former biology student I do remember that. The Rectum collects the .....err.... faecal matter... and it's expelled through the anus.

Make sure you remember that, you'll be tested on it tomorrow.

Urectum would be so much more polite

How about Utube?

The often asked question in school was " How far is Uranus from the Earth ? "

My answer was "about three feet when you're sitting down !!!!"

I was always good at Astrology.