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From: bing@galbp.UUCP (Bing Bang)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Re: Units of measurement
Message-ID: <266@galbp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 22:38:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 22:38:05 1986
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Reply-To: bing@galbp.UUCP (Bing Bang)
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Summary: 

In article <> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) 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.
>
>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]
megahelen - 1/1000 th of the amount of beauty required to make the sailor
            think in any other terms than a one night stand.
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"Break, but never bend."		from an oak tree i know
			...that can move in two directions at the same time

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