Comments | narcissisticgod: 364.4 smoots plus one ear

narcissisticgod

364.4 smoots plus one ear

May 31, 2006 21:27

This is my new favorite wikipedia site: List of strange units of measurement

For example:

Beauty: The HelenThe amount of beauty that can launch one thousand ships. Usually used as the millihelen, the amount of beauty that can launch one ship ( Read more... )

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Not that this is really relevant but southern_raven June 1 2006, 02:17:02 UTC

I was reading a book from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series today, and one of the stories was about Dream's librarian trying to recover that book from his library.

Re: Not that this is really relevant but narcissisticgod June 1 2006, 02:32:53 UTC

Neil Gaiman rocks my litterary socks.

Re: Not that this is really relevant but southern_raven June 1 2006, 03:13:02 UTC

I frigging love the Sandman stuff. I just read the one about Emperor Norton of the United States of America, and I swear I almost passed out it was so good.

Re: Not that this is really relevant but narcissisticgod June 1 2006, 06:19:47 UTC

Have you tried Good Omens? He did it with Terry Pratchett. It's possibly my favorite book of all time