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Scientists, if you ask me – and I know you didn’t, but humor me, mkay? – are the type of folks that you just love to hate.&#160 They always think they know more than you do simply because they’ve dissected more frogs than you or made a liquid change color in a test tube.

And granted – perhaps they do&#160 have a better chance of passing an SAT than do you or I.&#160 But then they have to get really&#160 pissy about it and flaunt it.&#160 Makes you just wanna shove a pocket protector up their asses, y’know?

But now here comes a group of “scientists” – and really, who appointed these elitist snots, anyway? – saying that we may no longer consider the planet Pluto to be a planet.

Pluto, beloved by some as a cosmic underdog but scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.

“Dinky and distant”?&#160 That’ll come as a real shock to Eminiar VII and Vendikar.

The International Astronomical Union, dramatically reversing course just a week after floating the idea of reaffirming Pluto’s planethood and adding three new planets to Earth’s neighborhood, downgraded the ninth rock from the sun in historic new galactic guidelines.

Translation:&#160 “Pluto just isn’t sexy&#160 enough for us.&#160 Mentioning Pluto to Tyra Banks is a real date killer.&#160 Not that we’d ever know what that was like.&#160 A date, we mean.”

Pluto, a planet since 1930, got the boot because it didn’t meet the new rules, which say a planet not only must orbit the sun and be large enough to assume a nearly round shape, but must “clear the neighborhood around its orbit.” That disqualifies Pluto, whose oblong orbit overlaps Neptune’s, downsizing the solar system to eight planets from the traditional nine.

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Pluto and objects like it will be known as “dwarf planets,” which raised some thorny questions about semantics: If a raincoat is still a coat, and a cell phone is still a phone, why isn’t a dwarf planet still a planet?

I’m throwing the bullshit flag on this one:&#160 Fucking around with the universe, trying to play God again,&#160 98 million mile penalty, loss of down.&#160 You people are the same types that are trying to BS us about men coming from apes, and I’m still&#160 not buying that one.

Our solar system has at least nine planets, maybe more.&#160 That’s what I was taught, that’s what I’ll continue to believe.&#160 As for you “scientists”…I’d sooner vote to drop you asshats from the list of people not considered total boobs.

Sheesh.