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• millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
• Millihelen, adj: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
• Compare this with the unit of facial beauty, the Helen, first defined by C.
  Marlowe. A milliHelen, of course, will launch just one ship....
• 1 Billion dollars of budget deficit = 1 Gramm-Rudman 6.
  023 x 10 to the 23rd power alligator pears = Avocado's number 2 pints = 1 Cavort Basic unit of Laryngitis = The Hoarsepower Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line 6 Curses = 1 Hexahex 3500 Calories = 1 Food Pound 1 Mole = 007 Secret Agents 1 Mole = 25 Cagey Bees 1 Dog Pound = 16 oz....
• quantifiers In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Systè
  me International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses....
• The I.S.O. standard unit of female pulchritude is the milli-helen.
  This is the amount of beauty capable of causing the launching of a single ship....
• Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summe
• The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.
  -- Chism's Law of Completio...