This actually made me well up a bit. Poor Pluto- it's the solar systemic version of getting dumped by your girlfriend. This was (as usual) magnificent, Stu...for some reason 'you were too unplanet-y' tickled my funny bone the most. A big supernova 555

Pluto, the 98-pound weakling of the solar system. If this were a comic book, it would now get bathed in gamma rays, and life would grow there, and it would quickly become sentient and develop space flight, and head for Earth to teach us some manners. Which would require a parody the length of Don McLean's other song to tell. Anybody who treats Pluto this way is goofy. A five-stage rocket for doing otherwise, and well.

surprisingly poignant

I'm glad you finally re-posted this. The asteroids line was priceless. Orbital 5's

They're lying. Pluto's still a planet. The thing about Pluto not being a planet is a communist lie.

You might say that Pluto is a dog star now that it's no longer a planet.

The Plutonians thank you and have adopted this as their planetary anthem.

Like John said, by the title I was thinking Disney's dog...but this better...great farewell to the big ball..

Yep - 'un-planety' - a word after my own heart... :-) And to think for a century it was so well rooted in the solar system.... ;-)

thanks Kristof - yes I was very pleased with unplanet-y!

wow, that must be the cleverest comment I've ever gotten MP, goofy, Ampie, just cleverness everywhere - the irony of course is that I had to repost this parody because, true to Pluto's recent form, this parody itself was plutoed from amiright last week, having been posted on the infamous Crashday. Seemingly again Pluto was destined to be forever lost in space, and I couldn't let it happen to the poor bastard twice ;-)

thanks alvin and Dee :-)

I'm with you Dylan - Chairman Mao had something to do with this outrage - thanks

thanks JAB and Rex

thanks AFW - if only he had been a bigger ball maybe, everybody would have been satisfied

if he wasn't rooted then Merry, he sure is now - thanks :-)

Beautiful song...then you threw in "(are they suffering from asteroids?)" . Heehee I still wonder what Pluto did wrong. ; )

Like Kristof, this one got me as well. Beautifully written but so sad at the same. Particularly grateful that you provided the link to the song - our supply teacher used to let us listen to this when we were about eight and doing something about Vincent Van Gogh at school.

Well, it'll always be a planet to the Western astrologers! Very clever and well-crafted parody, Stu - 5.55 light-hours of fun from the Sun!

(SOTM) Lots of reasons for praise--it kept the melancholy spirit of the OS, didn't go for obvious Disney dog (or Uranus)jokes, well-researched.

That dog finally kicked the bucket. Ohhhh the planet, okay this makes more sense now. Great tribute to a planet we all loved.

Ahhhh... poor Pluto. :-)

(SOTM) Quite the emotional rollercoaster. It's funny and sad at the same time. 555 waves goodbye to Pluto :'(

SOTM - In our solar system there are planetary moons bigger than Pluto, but it's just not fair to moon Pluto like this because of that! (But at least it's still outside Uranus).

555 pounds

(SOTM) 555 little twinklies in the sky

(SOTM) The OS puts me to sleep, but the parody is excellent. Sometimes, we should just tell science to bite me and stick with tradition. Just sometimes, though. 555

(SOTM) Brought a lump to my throat. This was actually quite gorgeous.

Awesome. But Pluto knows it's a dog eat dog world! Great song on something I followed...and great comment by K1 =)

SOTM - A beautiful tribute to a beautiful ex-planet. Let us share a minute of silence for Pluto... Alright I'm over it, but GREAT parody, 5-5-5

SOTM - Slightly odd but interesting topic for a slightly odd OS that I'd genuinely never heard before.

(SOTM) This still makes me a bit teary; I guess I'm just a big cosmological softie!

Funny and Beautiful.

(SOTM) I was more impressed by the sentiment than the comedious end, I think this one is likely to be a top 5 for me, just the topic and it being put to your typically fantastic writing, and Pluto will always be respected as a planet to me. . .it seperated as a moon--didn't we seperate from a country, All hail Pluto!

Weir,d thought I commented musta not gone through,anyways, this is better than the OS.5s

I also shed a tear for this, although the impact was strong when this was large in the news last year. Still a great sentiment using great parody about a great planet. By the way I loved the line "Astral Roadkill".

(DEC 2.10) Nothing more I can add here, Stu...except that it was a pleasure to revisit

(Dec) Nice to see you again.

(Dec 2.0) Nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. Bloody astronomers. 555 (again :P)

Pluto, the Mickey Mouse planet... Couldn't you have set this to another OS, though, Stu? I'd forgotten how much I can't stand this one ;-)

Great job, Stuart ... and I'm with Kristof -- Pluto did nothing to deserve this cruel demotion. At least re those responsible, we all now know what's operative syllable in "astronomer"! :-)

Decathlon...this is phenomenal, Stuart...I can't believe I've never seen it before! Excellent job.

Good to see this again, still love it!

(Dec2) As I said originally in the SOTM that contained it, Pluto will always be a planet to me. I loved this first time around Stu, and believe it or not, I just get more of a sentimental feeling from it than laughter, which is an accomplishment all it's own. . .I was a bit surprised that you choose a song that was from a prior contest to enter into this, but none the less it was well written and qualified. . .not hilarious, but an expert parody by an expert parodist.

Great work Stuart, listening to this original song gives me a feeling of lonliness, and sorrow... Which is strange, because it's just a stinkin' planet! But it was such a sad, sad story at the time, and this really touched me back when I first read it, and it still touches me a bit to this day.

Loved "plutonicly" and "(are they suffering from asteroids?)". Good to see you could work in something about Uranus as well, he heh. "Astral roadkill" was very inspired as well. 555

SOTY- OK I thought that Mickey Mouse's dog had died! Whew, however the planet's R.I.P. is just as sad. Very funny and well done, Stu.

(ABC) Kudos for a requiem of a ONCE planet!!

If it makes you feel any better, there was a DanceDanceRevolution song called "Pluto" that had the hardest dance steps of all the planet songs in SuperNOVA2. Great OS choice. 555

See Above (Into the night sky)

In the style of Billy Joel "It's always a planet to me". . .still like it, see above. . .DJ Blaze, Sometimes I forget you are a DDR fanatic, I would have never linked this to the song "Pluto". . .now I have THAT song in my head too:)

(ABC5) See above (again...*sniffle*)

ABC05QR)
BR> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that Pluto is realy a planet - on 2nd thought maybe it does. But those twits that say it is not a planet. I say that you can all stick that notion up Uranus and go poopiter out some air lock in space. Scientists must always come up with more and more absurd ideas in order to keep the philanthropistic and government grants given up to them coming in existing on someone elses dime. And they pull the wool so easily over everyone's eyes because only other scientists argue with their way out theories who are above most of our pay grades . I've done my share on the theme of scientists being full of it just for the grant money - IE "The Clowns of Science" and the entire montage of "Pi" parodies I did that satire all the money they spend trying to make sense of the remainder of PI - the only known division problem that neither runs a repetaive remainder or simply goes on forever with the last number of that remainder.

Stu - I completely see the humor in this but I was actually upset that they dare declare an object in our astronomical neighborhood that has only been known to exist since about 1930 and has yet to complete even one revolution around the sun and will not have completed such withn our life times so how are they so sure about something they only really first got an eyeball on using the Hubble just a few short years now in the making.

OK - soap box taken down - Stu you never cease to amaze with your originality and ever so finely written parodies. This is going to be a tough round to cast votes upon - every parody I've read so far in this round are all contenders. Write on Stu - write on - we love it.

ABC5(QR) Great job on this!!!...Many cleverly funny lines!!!...555!!!

See above! I still like this, and "sure, he's eccentr-ic" stuck out for me as well as the previously mentioned lines.

(ABC) Sweet and tender and funny. Good use of neologs (new words). 555 million miles away from home!

Is it bad that I can imagine Josh Groban singing this? Well I can. I heard his voice in my head as I read the words. Which by the way were hilarious. I love your plays on words. Yay for the loyal moons! :D