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Online Merchants See Green in Pluto News

Friday, August 25, 2006 4:48:53 PM
By ALICIA CHANG

Los Angeles-based Web programmer Chris Spurgeon'S bumper sticker, "Honk if Pluto is still a planet," featuring an image of the Planet from the Hubble Space Telescope, that took him 15 minutes to design, is seen on a computer screes at his office in Los Angeles Friday, Aug. 25, 2006. Scores of Web-savvy sellers hoping to support, and cash in on, Pluto's demotion to a "dwarf planet" bombarded the Internet hawking Pluto memorabilia worthy of a presidential candidate, from T-shirts and mugs to bumper stickers and mouse pads. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)LOS ANGELES (AP) - Not long after puny Pluto was stripped of its planethood, Janis Robinson started selling $25 "PLUTO IS A PLANET" T-shirts on the Internet.

Robinson, who said she "rolled her eyes" after Pluto got the boot, hopes her buyers will send a message that kicking out the far-out rock is downright goofy.

"I'm always going to think of Pluto as a planet," said the 45-year-old semi-retiree from San Jose, who insists she's not peddling shirts on Craigslist for the money. "People who buy this can make a statement that we still believe in Pluto."


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