¿Está buena? Es re-simpática

A raíz de un post que vi en Fogonazos, me acordé de esto que ya había escuchado alguna vez, de las unidades de medida divertidas.

De la larga lista, me gustaría destacar:

Estta es sencillamente genial. No sólo por usarla a Helen, sino además por citar a Marlowe, que, ya se dijo, le pasaba el trapo a Chespir (probablemente, nuunca lo sabremos a ciencia cierta)

Beauty: Helen
Helen of Troy (from the Iliad) is widely known as "the face that launched a thousand ships". Thus, 1 millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship.


According to The Rebel Angels, a novel by Robertson Davies, this system was invented by Cambridge mathematician W.A.H. Rushton. However, the term was possibly first suggested by Isaac Asimov.[9] The obvious reference is Marlowe's line from the play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships...?" [10]


Negative values have also been observed—these, of course, are measured by the number of ships sunk or the number of clocks stopped. An alternative interpretation of 1 negative Helen is the amount of negative beauty (i.e. ugliness) that can launch one thousand ships the other way.


David Lance Goines has written a humorous article[11] describing various Helen-units. It has a chart with the fire-lighting and ship-launching capability for different powers of "Helens". For example, a picohelen (ph) (10−12 helens) indicates the amount of beauty that can "Barbecue a couple of Steaks & Toss an Inner Tube Into the Pool".


Thomas Fink, in The Man's Book[12] defines beauty both in terms of ships launched, and also in terms of the number of women that one woman will, on average, be more beautiful than. One Helen (H) is the quantity of beauty to be more beautiful than 50 million women, the number of women estimated to have been alive in the 12th century BC. Ten Helena (Ha) is the beauty sufficient for one oarsmen (of which 50 are on a ship) to risk his life, or be the most beautiful of a thousand women. Beauty is logarithmic on a base of 2. For beauty to increase by 1 Ha, a woman must be the most beautiful of twice as many women. One Helen is 25.6 Ha. The most beautiful woman which ever lived would score 34.2 Ha, and 1.34 H, the pick of a dozen women would be 3.6 Ha, and 0.14 H.


In the futuristic science-fiction novel Pretties by Scott Westerfeld, the teenage characters use Helens and milli-Helens as trendy slang for measurements of beauty.

Y esta, porque... no sé, porque es Fonz!

Coolness: MegaFonzie
A MegaFonzie is a fictional unit of measurement of an object's coolness invented by Professor Farnsworth in the Futurama episode, Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV. A 'Fonzie' is about the amount of coolness inherent in the Happy Days character Fonzie.

O sea que la típica conversación podría convertirse en algo así:

- Che, y... ¿está Helen la mina?
- Es MegaFonzie

8 opiniones :

Tulsi dijo...

es buena, pero no sabe a queso

Subjuntivo dijo...

A la pelota, esa no la tenía!

Fodor Lobson dijo...

men can tó
ya mismo implemento el uso de las Helens y los Fonzies como unidades de medida

gerund dijo...

ah, pero ser megafonz está muy por encima que ser re-simpática, eh...

Subjuntivo dijo...

Sí, es cierto, pero bueno, es la frase hecha...

violette dijo...

la caserita en un caso de respuesta positiva sería: "está mas buena que comer con la mano"

Subjuntivo dijo...

Sí, cada uno tiene su final para "está más buena que..."
Amí, comer con la mano no me llama mucho, la verdad...

Creo recordar alguien que decía "... que las papas fritas con mayonesa", pero puede que me equivoque.

gerund dijo...

Subju, yo justo iba a mandar al frente a la persona que decía eso, y volver a citar a Pulp Fictio:

Vincent: You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup?
Jules: What?
Vincent: Mayonnaise.
Jules: Goddamn.*
Vincent: I've seen 'em do it, man. They fuckin' drown 'em in that shit.

(*para quien no lo recuerda, ese Goddam es una mezcla de sentiir asco y que le eisitáni ifalitando el respeto...)

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