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Be reading and watching all the lovely news coverage about how the snow has been great “for the kids” (copyright Wayne&Kylie 2009), while all we took all day was 999 calls for kids who were blocking roads and then forcing car doors open to iceball passing pedestrians.

The Wrong Kind Of Snow « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Whether it was a meteor and the dinosaurs, or when the planet just had microbial life and it turned into an iceball, the planet comes back.

First The Day the Earth Stood Still Remake Banner Discovered « FirstShowing.net 2008

In the hours just after the snowball incident, a police spokesman had said that an officer had been hit in the face with an iceball.

D.C. police snowball assault case dismissed Mary Pat Flaherty 2010

And because Pluto is rather large, this definition won't confer planethood on every last iceball beyond Neptune.

Ninth Rock From the Sun Ken Croswell 2010

Not only that, but these rules add three more planets to the roster: Ceres (up until now considered a lowly asteroid), Charon (Pluto's moon), and the prosaically-named UB313 (an iceball slightly bigger than Pluto and chillingly even farther from the Sun).

Phil Plait: Pluto to Officially Become a Planet-- and Now we have 12! 2008

He mentions Quaoar, but that's just the tip of the iceberg (or a fraction of the iceball, if you prefer).

More on the "10th Planet" Edward Willett 2006

He mentions Quaoar, but that's just the tip of the iceberg (or a fraction of the iceball, if you prefer).

Archive 2006-01-29 Edward Willett 2006

In the photograph below you can see Valerie and me on our vehicle, with some of the perpetrators in the background, most notably Wojciech Zurek (with beard), who turned out to be quite an iceball marksman.

Science and no Religion in Reykjavik! Mark 2007

Millions of years from now the Earth will be a frozen iceball hurtling through space, and by then it won't matter what sort of comment Bob made on Ann Althouse's blog on a Saturday in November, 2007.

"When Mexicans come north as illegal immigrants, we call them wetbacks." Ann Althouse 2007

If that were the case, the earth would turn into an iceball.

Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit 2007