Web pleadings over Pluto

Visitors to boston.com's message board had their own pithy reactions to Pluto's demotion:

``Poor Pluto. Rejected by the only solar system it's ever known. It's almost like Rudolph . . . . "

Posted by emme8819

``I feel for the Plutonians. . . . One day you are a planet, next you are just a freakishly big non-planet. Or a freakishly small non-planet."

Posted by mhc90

``Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But Pluto WILL exact its revenge on the universe. And we shall all be sorry."

Posted by captain

``Did the leading astronomers tell Pluto `It's not you, it's me?' "

Posted by sandybaby