I get the impression that they didn't have the kid who was Uranus roll, though.

[mrissa]

Well, the holiday season is truly upon us: yesterday we celebrated Mikulas, and none of us was hauled away or eaten by Krampusz. Whew. Thursday is this year's Cookie Day, only this year we are having Cookie Day and Cookie Day 2: The Re-Cookenating. And this year Mikulas is in the middle of Hanukkah, so I hope that's fortuitous for those few of

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[txanne]

I never played Planets! I feel so terribly cheated now! Perhaps my nephews or goddaughters will grow up to be geeks.

[mrissa]

You can still play. Planets won't mind.

[txanne]

By myself it's not as much fun. I suppose I could be the When Worlds Collide planet. Or a Dyson sphere! I contain multitudes!

[aedifica]

Maybe sometime when you and I are in the same place we can get up a game of it? wshaffer suggested that Saturn have a hula hoop, and I have some!

[wshaffer]

When I played it, I don't think Uranus rolled in the grass, but Saturn got a hula hoop.

[mrissa]

This is awesome when hula hoops are available.

[aedifica]

I never heard of Planets, but I have hula hoops! Hmm....

[akirlu]

Initially, I couldn't parse the title correctly, and so I was waiting for the part of the story that had to do with planet sushi, and it never came. I am only mildly disappointed however.

[mrissa]

I would like planetary sushi rolls! Someone should get right on that.

[pameladean]

Does Richard Holmes say how he knows this? Because I want to be sure.

Before I start running around the house whooping, you know.

P.

[mrissa]

The endnote seems to indicate that he gets it from Andrew Motion's Keats bio, and that it was done at the school at Enfield.

[mamculuna]

OT, but not much: St. Lucia buns--should they have saffron or cardamom?

[mrissa]

Lussekatter have saffron, but it is perfectly permissible to have cardamom buns for Santa Lucia as well; they are nice.

[mamculuna]

Thanks!!