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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Re: Units of measurement
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 14:48:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 14:48:49 1986
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>>>> 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.

femtohelen - the amount of beauty required to motivate one red blood
	     cell to fill the sailor's corpus cavernosum [an absolute
	     precursor to all of the above]