From: Glen Closson (glen_closson@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 14:47:48 PST
For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting units:
-Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
-2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
-1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
-Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
-Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
-Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
-16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
-Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
-1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
-Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
-Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
-453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
-1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
-1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
-365.25 days = 1 unicycle
-2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
-52 cards = 1 decacards
-1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
-1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
-1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
-1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
-10 rations = 1 decoration
-100 rations = 1 C-ration
-2 monograms = 1 diagram
-4 nickels = 2 paradigms
-2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at YaleUniversity Hospital= 1 IV League
-100 Senators = Not 1 decision
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