On 06/07/2018 05:44 PM, home user via users wrote:
> Even before the "F28 - Today's updates messed up writing to USB" thread, I 
> always rebooted after any update that involved anything "kernel".  I 
> appreciate the re-assurance.
> 
> Only one last concern:
>> Millihelen (n): The amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
> I know that "milli" is a thousandth, but I don't get this joke.

Read up on Helen of Troy. She had "the beauty that launched 1,000
ships", thus:

        1) If 1 "helen" can launch 1,000 ships, then
        2) 1 "millihelen" can launch 1 ship

Ok, obscure history (or myth) lesson coupled with math. Weird combo.
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