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WCDT: 2593-2597 (09-13 December 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
DSL:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 11 Dec 2013, 06:13 ---... 1 helen is therefore sufficient beauty to launch 20,000 tons of ship.
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So a laker, about 30,000 tons deadweight, would require roughly 1.5 helens, or one helen highwater.
draiden:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 11 Dec 2013, 09:17 ---Who is Janet and why is she only 5 microhelens? Also wouldn't a nanohelen be required for that 20g rubber duck? A picohelen would launch 20mg, or a grain of rice.
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The unit of measures "Helen" was named after Helen Troy. Janet was her sister. She wasn't as pretty.
--- Quote from: DSL on 11 Dec 2013, 15:10 ---
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 11 Dec 2013, 06:13 ---... 1 helen is therefore sufficient beauty to launch 20,000 tons of ship.
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So a laker, about 30,000 tons deadweight, would require roughly 1.5 helens, or one helen highwater.
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is "helen highwater" a new unit of measurement equal to 1.5 helens, or is "highwater" somewhere used to describe one half of something?
But anyway, I think this is being measured incorrectly. Beauty as a force only works against weight indirectly. Beauty causes one man to gather enough men to man the ships and sail after her. Depending on the efficiency of the ships, more or less men will be needed. So one ship could take three men to crew, or an older vessel that does the same job could take twice that many, meaning a girl would have to be twice as beautiful to have that ship manned. Or, say she wasn't so beautiful, but all the ships that came after her weighed more, but took less people to operate. She gets to have more weight moved for less beauty!
Method of Madness:
I know who Helen of Troy was...but her sister was Clytemnestra. So I ask again. Who the hell is Janet?
draiden:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 11 Dec 2013, 15:28 ---I know who Helen of Troy was...but her sister was Clytemnestra. So I ask again. Who the hell is Janet?
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I'm trying to find you a link to the joke itself, but it's a joke from Mel Brooks' 2000 year old man skit.
Also, DAMN her actual sister got the shit end of the name straw.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: specter177 on 11 Dec 2013, 09:30 ---So we'd need 5 helens to launch a new aircraft carrier?
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Or one Queen. The Queen has infinitely adjustable launching powers, and so one Queen (abbreviation: QE-II) is the correct amount for any ship or boat whatever.
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