Poor, Put-Upon Pluto
I came of age in the 1980s. During elementary school, the mnemonic device “My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas” helped me and my fellow students remember the name and order of the nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. That’s right, Pluto. Pluto was always the smallest, [...]
