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People who ask "What's your sign?" should be...
Encouraged to bore you further. 1
Forgiven for their sins. 1
Be told you’re an Orion. 1
Removed from the gene pool. 6
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What’s your sign?  Mine’s Orion! 
Posted: 06 August 2007 06:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]
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Nah, it just proves the aliens don’t know how to read the latest articles in the astronomical journals.  LOL

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Posted: 07 August 2007 04:13 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]
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It also proves Jupiter and Saturn are bigger than the Sun.

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Posted: 07 August 2007 02:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 18 ]
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Alon - 07 August 2007 04:13 AM

It also proves Jupiter and Saturn are bigger than the Sun.

Well the orbits aren’t in proportion either.  I wonder what date has those relative positions of planets.

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Posted: 10 August 2007 01:33 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 19 ]
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In the words of the late comic Robin Harris: “STOP SIGN, M-F’er!”

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Posted: 29 August 2007 04:17 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 20 ]
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Moon in Jupiter, sign is up Uranus. If one is so inclined, one most assuredly must enjoy the pleasure and comfort of what one deems to be a feasable, and “rational” explanation for whom they are, and will be.
Wife into it to the point of making unbelievably more money than I do bookoo, because we are in the Hollywood area. I work. She works. She believes that what she does is of benefit to those who need some sort of spiritual guidance, so they pay. A LOT!
I work and it’s really hard and my mind is like a cat turd with the blue-colored flavor crystals all stuck to it. I suffer writers’ block at least thirty times a minute, and if I could actually make a deadline, the publishers would begin planning the funeral.

She is astro, and I am in retro. I have to live with those comments every day. Ephemeris or BUST!!

Astrology is what it is. Work is a drag.

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Posted: 02 September 2007 03:58 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 21 ]
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I was born under the sign of “Novelty Shop.”

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Posted: 08 September 2007 10:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 22 ]
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When I get hit with this question, I tell the poor unfortunate who asked it that I’m an “Ophiuchan”. The Sun actually passes through the lower boundary of the constellation Ophiuchus (see http://tinyurl.com/35awo4 and the graphic in #8). If I see any sort of light bulb pop on behind the eyes, I explain that the Sun actually passes through 13 constellations. If not...oh well.

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- Craig

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Posted: 28 February 2008 05:42 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 23 ]
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i will usually answer their question in a genuine way then ask them something like “do you sacrifice virgins to thor or odin?”, while smiling pleasantly as if i really want to know.

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Posted: 29 February 2008 06:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 24 ]
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I used to humor my friends and tell them I’m a Gemini/Cancer cusp, therefore I’ll a bundle of contradictions. Now I just look at people (friends and new acquaintances) who ask me this question (invariably after I mention my interest in astronomy) and tell them the truth: I was born under a bad sign. I’ve been down since I began to crawl. If it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have no luck at all.

If that doesn’t stop them I tell them bluntly that I follow science, not ancient superstitions. Yes, I’ve offended a few people, but I’ve had many more people congratulate me for my bluntness and ask what I’m drinking, then buy a round.

I love the Orion gambit, though. I’d try it if I hadn’t been born on Juneteenth.

Oh, I voted “Removed from the gene pool.”

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