Scientific Conversions

[Tom Zurinskas]

Or as my wife once sang (mis-sang): "If a face could launch a thousand ships then yours could launch one too."


Tom Zurinskas, first Ct 20 yrs, then Tn 3, NJ 33, Fl 9.
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: James Harbeck
> Subject: Re: Scientific Conversions
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> I was expecting to see among them the basic unit of beauty, the
> millihelen -- a unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship (since
> Helen had the face that launched a thousand ships).
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> James Harbeck.
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