Well, i live in a nation, where that word, is 'an all';
But, how do you really measure Beauty?
Well here, the standard is 'a face' and lol, it has to be a white one too!
So, how about the other virtues of a human, that should constitute beauty; how about the body, presence, persona, shapes etc?
Well, today i learned something about beauty, so much so, that i can understand to an extent better, how the face has come to have this much value over the years.
I mean; even from way back ancient past, when units of measurement were being established, the unit of measurement given to 'Beauty' was 'Helen', derived from
'Helen of Troy'.
(Helen of Troy 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.
BASICALLY, from way back, when it comes to describing beauty, a face has been given prominence!
The unit of measurement of Fame is Warhol. (derived from Andy Warhol's dictum "everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes")
Hence;
1 kilowarhol — famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric "nine-day wonder".
1 megawarhol — famous for 15 million minutes, or 28.5 years.
(The Wheaton is a measurement of Twitter followers relative to celebrity Wil Wheaton.[52] The measurement was standardized when Wil Wheaton achieved half a million Twitter followers, with the effect that Wil Wheaton now has 6.14 Wheatons himself, as of October 2016.
As many Twitter users have fewer than one million followers, the milliwheaton (500 followers) is more commonly used)
Here are some hilarious 'units of measurement' of 'Time':
'New York Second'
The New York Second is ("the shortest unit of time in the multiverse") and is defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
So whenever you get to hear the idiomatic expression "in a New York minute"; this used in various contexts to mean an instant or a very short time. This unit of measurement may have been founded on the busyness of New York and impatience of its residents.
Another interesting or let's call it, 'hilarious unit of measurement' is 'Microfortnight'; which is (one millionth of a fortnight, or approximately 1.2 seconds!
There is also a 'Microcentury':
One microcentury is 52 minutes and 35.69 seconds – one millionth of a century.
(According to Gian-Carlo Rota,[35] the mathematician John von Neumann used the term microcentury to denote the maximum length of a lecture)
A Jiffy:
Sure we have heard this used in expressions but it did have roots in the ancient past and is actually, a known unit of measurement of time.
(A jiffy is a unit of time used in computer operating systems, being the interval of time between system timer interrupts. This interval varies from system to system, but is typically between 1 and 10 milliseconds.)
Well, there quite a number of them and quite intriguing to read; hilarious as well!
Your boy, Terry and the above is something of what i learned today!
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement#Non-conventional
source: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/434875-the-shortest-unit-of-time-in-the-multiverse-is-the
