Hella Unlikely

Scott Hardie | July 7, 2010
Good luck to the guy trying to get the number hella recognized. There are several things that you can take away from that story:

1) 1.4 hellameters sounds like a perfectly reasonable quantity to use in everyday language, even if you're not describing the size of the known universe. "Damn, I feel like I just walked 1.4 hellameters." "If you printed out the World Wide Web and laid the sheets end to end, it would span 1.4 hellameters." "Steve Dunn's mom is so fat, her belt loops are 1.4 hellameters apart."

2) Why does everybody expect the stuffy old academics to reject hella? They approved googol, didn't they? Or is that word also not recognized by the scientific community? I guess that when the guy goes to the conference to propose hella, I keep expecting a whiny voice in the crowd to speak out against it, and this guy to shake his fist and say "Wernstrom!" I really need to watch other shows.

3) Of course Google approves of the word; it's similar to googol. I'd be surprised if they haven't already filed paperwork to register Heluh as a trademark.

4) Get out of my head, No Doubt!

Aaron Shurtleff | July 9, 2010
But he has a FACEBOOK petition! You can't stop that kind of pressure!

Jackie Mason | July 10, 2010
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Scott Hardie | July 11, 2010
I would pay money to see Andy Rooney spend an entire segment on 60 Minutes endorsing hella as a number.