From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcatta!sdcattb!wa125 Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: An Aid for the Composition and Comparison of Ugly Hyperbole Article-I.D.: sdcattb.619 Posted: Tue Jun 22 21:09:31 1982 Received: Sun Jun 27 04:22:45 1982 Bah; coyote girls, hyena girls, raccoon girls -- they achieve an approximate ranking of only 2.0 on the Richard Scale of Ugliness. (Richard is a guy I used to know who'd blind-date a lot.) (The Richard Scale, like its near-namesake, measures faults on a log- arithmic scale graduated from 1.0 to 10.0, however the tags differ somewhat. The Richard Scale runs something like 1.0 (for ex-girlfriends) . . . to 10.0 (the face Nero looked at before burning Rome) ) The Richard Scale is an invaluable aid to composing hyperbole. --Steve ms --sdcattb!wa125 ----------------------- p.s.! ( Now one poor girl was so ugly, when she looked into a Mirror of Truth, the mirror said, "No comment." (5.0, wouldn't you say?) )