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19 Sep
More Metric Conversions

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 22:27:58 -0700
To: Fun_People
Subject: More Metric Conversions

From: "David D. Levine" <davidl@co.intel.com>

   1 millihelen = the amount of beauty required to launch 1 ship.
   1 microsmile = that for which Al Jolson would walk one mile.
   1 boost = 10**-18 boy (1 attoboy).
   1 vanilli = 2000 guys who can't sing.
   1 picobu = 1 I.C.U.
   1 arnaz = 10 Cuban bandleaders.
   1 mockingbird = 0.0005 novel, where 1 novel = 2 kilomockingbird.

And of course you remember Milli, Micro, Femto, and Atto, the Marx Sisters...

© 1997 Peter Langston