Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: beauty, instead of ugly jokes Message-ID: <1121@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Sep-84 23:48:56 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.1121 Posted: Sun Sep 16 23:48:56 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 04:00:56 EDT Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 19 References: The "milli-medusa" doesn't sound right as a measure of ugliness. First, because classical literature does not (I think) claim that one Medusa regularly affected a thousand of anything, and second, because the Medusa is not exactly an image of ugliness. I just use the "inverse milli-helen", which is STILL not a measure of ugliness, but rather, a measure of what it takes to "stop one ship". That may seem like a useless thing to measure, but if your company is trying to release a software-intensive product to the market place, you will occasionally be concerned about whether you have any bugs that stop shipment ("stop ship"). The force of these bugs should obviously be measured in inverse milli-helens. - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison or: decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison or (emergency): princeton!eosp1!robison