Re: "plumbing" problem during weekly update. [SOLVED]

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On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 10:51 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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.

It's a line from Christopher Marlowe's play "Doctor Faustus" (c. 1590):

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium--
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--

poc
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