The milliHelen has been proposed as a new unit for measuring beauty, defined as the beauty required to launch one ship. This concept is viewed as a significant improvement over the traditional one-to-ten scale, which is subjective and limited. The milliHelen allows for a more expansive and nuanced understanding of beauty, with the potential for negative values to represent the beauty that leads to failure. The discussion also raises concerns about the applicability of this unit to males, suggesting a need for a corresponding male unit of beauty.
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I knew Helen Venus well: a pig in lipstick.Originally posted by tribdog
When I went to school at SOSC I dated a girl named Helen Venus. The face that launched 1000 ships and the goddess of love and beauty wrapped into one.
Originally posted by zoobyshoe
I think this is a better approach, by far, than the old scale of one to ten, which was subjectively based on the rater's exerience. This new "Hellenic" scale is open ended, allowing for surprising new magnitudes of beauty.
It seems to me it could work the other way as well: preceeded by a negative sign, it could indicate the number of ships sunk by those mistresses whose eyes are "Nothing like the Sun".
Probably true, Gale, but I haven't got time to worry about that now. I'm waiting for tribdog to launch his counter attack.Originally posted by Gale17
retaliation... umm how about you guys are dumb sexist stupid
heads.