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Date: 02 May 2004 18:21:20
Went to the wedding yesterday, saw lots of Ship/Wibsite people and had a very good time indeed. I wasn't sure what to expect from an alt.worship wedding, Moby and tealights perhaps, but no not a tealight in sight (or Moby for that matter). Bride and groom of course were radiant.
At the reception I was sure that my revelation that I knew that Kajagoogoo came from Leighton Buzzard (well except for Limahl, but I didn't share that at the time) would have me winning the unofficial "Who's the Saddest Git on the Table" competition. However Peter blew us all out of the water with his revelation that Gill's keyboard had been repaired by the same man who repairs keyboards for Margarita Pracatan. At that, we all realised we were in the presence of greatness and hastily changed the subject.
After the wedding quite a few of us ended up in the pub. Including the bride and groom in full wedding gear, which was lovely though ever so slightly surreal.
Anyway, once I got home I settled down to bed with another chapter of "A Short History of Nearly Everything". He mentioned some German eighteenth-century astronomer, who came marked with a * to direct me to the footnote. What I found amused me no end. And here it is:
"In 1781 Herschel became the first person in the modern era to discover a planet. He wanted to call it George, after the British monarch, but was overruled. Instead it became Uranus."
This little gem got me thinking. Recently astronomers discovered what they think might be the 10th planet in our solar system, and called it Sedna. I think Sedna's a stupid name. I think they should have called it Reginald.