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Subject: Humourous & silly units?
Posted Mar 15, 2008 by
Uncle Ghengis
 
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I'm sure that there are some humourous units too...

Like the Millihelen - notionally, the amount of beauty it takes to launch one ship.

But there must be more, right?

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Subject: Humourous & silly units?
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>>>Like the Millihelen - notionally, the amount of beauty it takes to launch one ship.

laugh

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Subject: Humourous & silly units?
Posted Mar 20, 2008 by
Uncle Ghengis
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Ah yes. I#ve just thought of another one (albeit a derived one), that I have seen mentioned...

Attoparsecs per fortnight.

(What were they thinking? Seriously!!!)

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Subject: Humourous & silly units?
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It's an interesting quiz question to ask what a milihelen is. Some people actually manage to work it out. My brother did.

TRiG.smiley

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