From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #149 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Saturday, August 26 2006 Volume 06 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Re: Duets ["Jackie M. Young" ] [chakram-refugees] Xena, the biggest dwarf [KLOSSNER9@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 08:55:47 -1000 (HST) From: "Jackie M. Young" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Re: Duets On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:02:56 -0400, "Cheryl Ande" wrote: >Lucy's been blond before and she is naturally a blond - perhaps not quite >this blond but blond nonetheless. - --Actually, I beg to differ. I have an interview tape of her on Mike & Maty (ah, the old days! ;) ), where she says to Maty that her real hair color is a "mousy brown", kind of like Maty's. Also, after she left XWP, she reverted to her natural hair color, and it wasn't _blonde_ (IMO), but a light brown (as seen of her playing with the kids in NZ on ET, etc.). Maybe we differ on the definition of "blonde" (to me, "blonde" means light yellow), but IMO LL is definitely NOT blonde naturally. Just MO, - --Jackie ****************************************************** * Proud to have the same birthday as Lucy Lawless! * * * * "I think New Zealand geographically comes from * * ... Hawai'i." --Lucy Lawless, Late Show, 4/9/96 * * * * JACKIE YOUNG, JYOUNG@LAVA.NET * * * * * ****************************************************** ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:00:27 EDT From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] Xena, the biggest dwarf The Wikipedia article on Xena the distant object in the far solar system, officially 2003 UB313, has been updated to show that yesterday the object was designated a dwarf planet, at the same time that Pluto was demoted from major planet to dwarf planet. The article says that UB313 is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, sort of like being the world's tallest midget. Now that its status has been determined, UB313 will be named, perhaps fairly soon. Except for Earth, the 8 remaining planets (plus ex-planet Pluto) are named after Roman gods, which are really Greek gods under Roman names. They are --Mercury (Greek name Hermes); Venus (Greek name Aphrodite); Mars (Greek name Ares); Jupiter (Greek name Zeus); Saturn (Greek name Kronos); Uranus (a Greek name used by the Romans, one for once didn't rename the god); Neptune (Greek name Poseidon); and former planet Pluto (Greek name Hades), now a dwarf. Six names of major Roman gods are still available. Diana (Greek name Artemis) would probably not be used because people would think it referred to the late UK princess. It's tempting to suggest Artemis, but we should remember that Artemis' association with the Amazons is not part of real mythology. It was invented by the show. The Amazons may not have existed and when the Greeks told stories about them, they held them up as an example of chaotic barbarism. Artemis was the goddess of hunting and wild animals, but she had nothing to do with Amazons, so there is no Xena-related reason to root for her as a dwarf planet name. Juno was the Roman name for Hera, a villainess in the show, so I hope she doesn't get anything named after her. With Jupiter (Zeus) and Nepture (Poseidon) we already have enough villainous gods in the solar system. Bacchus (Greek Dionysus) is another Xena villain. Apollo had the same name among the Greeks and the Romans. Cupid (Greek name Eros) would no doubt be rejected as a planet name on grounds it would be too cute. Apollo is a possibility, but the planet namers might not want to risk association with the Battlestar Galactica character. I am rooting for Minerva, the Roman name for Athena. Besides the similarity in their names, Xena and Athena had some things in common. Xena said that Athena was the only god she respected. In her book Lucy lawless & Renee O'Connor, Nikki Stafford wrote that she saw similarities between Xena and Athena, which she thought may have been intended by the show's creators. 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