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From: leet@copper.UUCP (Lee Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Re: Units of measurement
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 11:35:07 EST
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In far too many articles, far too many people write:
>>>>>> 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.

Has it already been pointed out that these measurements are a ludicrous
combination of the metric and troy systems?  :-)

YALP: on an Audi - "Doody".

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	Lee Thomas
	Software Development Products Division
	Design Automation Group
	Tektronix, Inc.