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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Units of measurement
Message-ID: <1919@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 15:47:31 EST
Article-I.D.: teddy.1919
Posted: Fri Jan 10 15:47:31 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jan-86 07:57:44 EST
References: <214@ihnp3.UUCP>
Reply-To: rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: giga me with a spoon!
Summary: 

In article <214@ihnp3.UUCP> pwyc@ihnp3.UUCP writes:
>>> millihelen - the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
>> microhelen - the amount of beauty required to motivate one sailor.
>
>nanohelen - the amount of beauty required to launch that sailor's
>	    you-know-what.
>picohelen - the amount of beauty required to motivate one sperm in
>	    that sailor's you-know-what.
>
Aren't these units confusing, because of the ambiguity between seamen
and ...

Oh, never mind.