Odd Meas. Units

How many of us (I don't) pronounce "giga" with a soft initial 'g' as is correct..? [Back to the Future used to drive me crazy until I found that the writers were right...] I have a 2.5 Farad @ 450VDC capacitor bank... takes an hour to charge, but delivers many Joules into a low-impedance load. Sometimes quite spectacularly! If the load is a solenoid, many Tesla are produced as well. I used to know the speed of light in Furlongs per Fortnight. If you wish to piss off the counter help at your local parts shop... ask for a 'Light-Emitting Resistor'. Hardware stores and markets have them too. I maintain several movie theaters in connection with my Work.. when asked (by newbies usually) how much power the sound system is in the largest one... and I am in one of those Moods... I will sometimes answer "About 11 RMS Horsepower..." And speaking as an audio geek... if a Pentium-class processor were made out of relay logic... imagine the *sound* it would make! I have many recordings of old telephone switchrooms.. especialy interesting are the large urban Crossbar offices... nothing yet I have heard makes that kind of sound. Finally, I have heard that a 'Millihelen' is the amount of beauty required to launch just *one* ship. Cheers John