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DaveC426913 said:
What's black and white and can't turn around in hallways?

A nun with a javelin through her head
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Don't quite know why I "liked" this. Possibly the sheer unbridled weirdness. I started picturing a javelin attack which took place in a convent hallway and in which a grievously injured nun found it necessary to run backwards to retreat being unable to simply turn and run in more conventional fashion. It seemed possible that, had the javelin penetrated the skull from the front (then protruding from the occipital bone on its partial exit), it might be possible for the poor woman to look down at her feet so that the javelin was now vertically oriented and thus effect a 180 degree rotation. Given the cognitive deficits and general duress, however, she might not be able to achieve this maneuver.
 
TheVat said:
Possibly the sheer unbridled weirdness.
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This is what makes it a classic.
TheVat said:
it might be possible for the poor woman to look down at her feet so that the javelin was now vertically oriented and thus effect a 180 degree rotation.
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A javelin is 0.5 giraffes in length, give or take. That's pretty close to the height of a typical hall. She might have difficulty with a true vertical orientation, but there would surely be an intermediate oblique angle that would work - were she dextrous enough, and still in possession of her faculties - in a hall that is at least .4 giraffes high and .4 giraffes wide.
 
TheVat said:
Don't quite know why I "liked" this. Possibly the sheer unbridled weirdness. I started picturing a javelin attack which took place in a convent hallway and in which a grievously injured nun found it necessary to run backwards to retreat being unable to simply turn and run in more conventional fashion. It seemed possible that, had the javelin penetrated the skull from the front (then protruding from the occipital bone on its partial exit), it might be possible for the poor woman to look down at her feet so that the javelin was now vertically oriented and thus effect a 180 degree rotation. Given the cognitive deficits and general duress, however, she might not be able to achieve this maneuver.
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"And now, for something completely different: A man with a stoat through his head:"

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(Monty Python - inevitably)
 
DaveC426913 said:
I followed up by pointing out that Princess Buttercup's Wesley has a beauty rating of four milli-Helens.
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Heh! This also raises a question of scale, given that ships vary tremendously in size. If Helen could launch a thousand ships (presumably after bathing and putting on makeup and flattering garments) of the kind used by Menelaus, how many aircraft carriers could she launch? Is the beauty force proportional to gross tonnage? Do propulsion systems factor in somehow? And of course there is the question of nuclear submarines, both in terms of their powerful engines and in that launching requires initially only for them to sink below the surface (and will beauty continue to act through the possibly obscuring effects of submergence).
 
TheVat said:
Heh! This also raises a question of scale, given that ships vary tremendously in size. If Helen could launch a thousand ships (presumably after bathing and putting on makeup and flattering garments) of the kind used by Menelaus, how many aircraft carriers could she launch? Is the beauty force proportional to gross tonnage? Do propulsion systems factor in somehow? And of course there is the question of nuclear submarines, both in terms of their powerful engines and in that launching requires initially only for them to sink below the surface (and will beauty continue to act through the possibly obscuring effects of submergence).
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So we are stuck with our six senses and have only an unreasonable ability to describe anything in this.
 
DaveC426913 said:
This is what makes it a classic.

A javelin is 0.5 giraffes in length, give or take. That's pretty close to the height of a typical hall. She might have difficulty with a true vertical orientation, but there would surely be an intermediate oblique angle that would work - were she dextrous enough, and still in possession of her faculties - in a hall that is at least .4 giraffes high and .4 giraffes wide.
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I can only say, that If anyone has read the last few posts via a translation device / app, they are going to be kicking that device around the room by now.
 
Come helen or high water, I would like to know how many nanohelens are needed to launch a bathtub toy which is one hamster in length and twelve almonds in mass.

Also, would there be a negative unit, which represents a force counteracting the helen? If, say, Margot Robbie has beauty measured at 0.7 helens, would there be someone who could nullify her ship launching of 700 triremes? The unit could be based on some legendarily repulsive personage. The Gorgon? Basically, if one helen launches a thousand ships, then one gorgon keeps a thousand ships in port. (or sends them back to port, if already deployed) So who could cancel Ms Robbie's ship launching? Marjorie Taylor Greene? Would she radiate at 0.7 gorgons? Where would Musk, Trump or Kim Jong Un fall on the scale? Would Steve Bannon emit a full gorgon?
 
Speaking of the Argo, I actually visited Cyclop's Rock when I was stationed in Sicily with the USN. It's off shore from Taormina and very close to Scylla and Charybdis, the two places that slam together to destroy unwary boaters. (Points of Sicily and Italy, with a tricky current at times, probably what gave us the myth.)
 
Moderator note: CaesarSalad1979 has been permanently banned. This identity was a sock puppet of a previously-banned user.
 
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