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  1. @Apostic # 21: Well, if you really wanted to be obscure, you’d have gone with Proserpina, which is the Latinisation of Persephone, just as Pluto is the Latin version of the underworld god Hades. Persephone goes with Hades, Proserpina goes with Pluto.

    But I laughed anyway.

  2. …a signed surrender agreement to Obama’s new Plutonian overlords.

    …endemic shrinkage, and a very depressed male population.

    …water, and one of those UPS stickers saying that a delivery from NASA had been left around back.

    …a complete lack of honesty, integrity, humility and hope, on the re-christined New Washington.

  3. CrabbyOldBat says:
    October 12th, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    @Apostic # 21: Well, if you really wanted to be obscure, you’d have gone with Proserpina, which is the Latinisation of Persephone, just as Pluto is the Latin version of the underworld god Hades. Persephone goes with Hades, Proserpina goes with Pluto.

    But I laughed anyway.

    Believe it or not, I’d considered that. At least I didn’t try to push pomegranates into the mix. 😉

    BTW, see also the French Lick resort. It was built on a sulfuric mineral spring. Pluto figured heavily into the resort’s branding. A mural on the lobby ceiling shows figures from the story of Proserpina. Gives you a chance to feel smarter than the average fellow tourist….

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