Archery Question

[Occhidiangela]

Hi,

No idea on the flaming arrow bit, never having fired non-virtual flames.  But in true Lurker fashion I must interject a side topic. :)

Have you heard of the new ISO unit of pulchritude?  It's a 'millihellen' -- enough beauty to launch *one* ship :)

--Pete
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Why yes, I heard of it last year, and again this morning, in an archived post by a guy who calls himself Pete. :D The conspiracy lives!!!!

Went searching the Lounge archives on Troy, unsure what commentary went on Loungeside when that film came out. Ran across the millihelen reference. It got a smile out of me yet again.

In the interest of angels dancing on the head of a pin, I will offer that the minimum required beauty to launch one ship, your ISO standard millihelen, represents a minimum standard, similar to fogging a mirror. One may be allowed to launch a ship with a centihellen beauty, although not with a microhellen, such as Jabba the Hut's mother: that sort of "beauty" would more likely launch my lunch.

Many is the ship that has been launched by nice looking, if not gorgeous, ladies, with the minimum standard devolving to the millihelenesque "Mrs Judge Smails" in Caddyshack. She probably establishes the ISO millihellen quantitative measurement, similar to the standard metre bar somewhere in Paris, when she smashes a champagne bottle across the bowsprit of The Flying Wasp in that memorable scene . . . memorable, that is, for fanatics of Caddyshacd/golf. :blush:

What's a cubit? Are we done here? I think so, caffeine still roaring through the veins.

Occhi