I was going to try a “face that launched a thousand (actually 1067 according to Homer) ships, And burnt the topless towers of Illium” joke but I couldn’t make it work. 😟
And of course just a step from the comedy routine about unusual units of measurement, where a millihelen is the unit of sufficient beauty to launch one ship.
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If you bend the word a little, it’s called the “judgin’ ’em.”
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I vote for a play on “jejune”: ‘displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity’
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Yeah, I like Consul’s take better.
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Yes, I agree, certainly a play on jejune as an adjective, which fits the behavior/attitude Cynthia is consciously enacting, to make the point.
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Callback to Woody Allen.
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There’s an order to these : Stomach, duodenum, jejunem, Ileum.
No reason to teach them out of order.
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I was going to try a “face that launched a thousand (actually 1067 according to Homer) ships, And burnt the topless towers of Illium” joke but I couldn’t make it work. 😟
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@Ian,that would certainly not have been jejune!
And of course just a step from the comedy routine about unusual units of measurement, where a millihelen is the unit of sufficient beauty to launch one ship.
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