Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ada-uts.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ada-uts!brianu From: brianu@ada-uts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: New SI unit (?) Message-ID: <14700004@ada-uts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 13:01:00 EST Article-I.D.: ada-uts.14700004 Posted: Mon Jan 6 13:01:00 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jan-86 06:13:31 EST References: <789@petrus.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:petrus:-78900:ada-uts:14700004:000:652 Nf-From: ada-uts!brianu Jan 6 13:01:00 1986 >***** ada-uts:net.jokes / petrus!mwg / 9:24 am Jan 2, 1986 >Somewhere in the fine print at the bottom of the program, Professor Schickele >in this year's P.D.Q. Bach concert at Carnegie Hall, defines the following: > A millihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship. >-Mark While in New York recently, I saw the ad for this concert. The concert was featured as his "Absolutly last tridekacentennial concert". I'm not sure about the prefixes, but you get the picture. Brian Utterback Intermetrics Inc. 733 Concord Ave. Cambridge MA. 02138. (617) 661-1840 UUCP: {cca!ima,ihnp4}!inmet!ada-uts!brianu LIFE: UCLA!PCS!TELOS!CRAY!I**2