Synonymy avoidance

[Mullins, Bill]

 Just idle speculation as to what would happen if the "standard"
measurement unit, an RCH, (red cunt hair -- as in "move that over just a
red cunt hair") were to be replaced with a BCH (blonde cunt hair).

A red hair (henna, I Love Lucy) is thicker than a blonde hair (peroxide,
Baywatch).

Sorry if my sense of humor is too murky.  Well, I usually amuse myself.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
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> Ok, I'd love to laugh, but I'm not getting the joke.
> Help?
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> --- "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
> > Not to mention that switching would require that the National
> > Institute of Standards and Technology, (NIST, formerly the National
> > Bureau of Standards, or NBS) would have to dissolve its "Henna
> > Division", a cadre of mobile calibration standards  ready
> to report to
> > field sites all over America, and replace it with a "Peroxide
> > Squadron", who would need to be trained and otherwise brought up to
> > speed.  Plus, "I Love Lucy" would be pulled out of the Primary
> > Standards repository and replaced with "Baywatch".
> >
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> > > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> > Jonathan Lighter
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:36 AM
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> > > Subject: Re: Synonymy avoidance
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> > > Subject:      Re: Synonymy avoidance
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> > >
> > > Technically, yes. But the RCH appears to have been
> > the
> > > accepted measure for at least sixty years.  Any
> > switch to the
> > > BCH standard would require extensive industrial
> > recalibration
> > > that could result in a slowing of economic growth.
> > >
> > > Cf. the ill-fated attempt to "go metric" many
> > years ago.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > > James C Stalker <stalker at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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> > > But isn't an RCH bigger than a BCH?
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > Jonathan Lighter writes:
> > >
> > > > Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer "RCH."
> > > >
> > > > JL
> > > >
> >
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