From: Arthur Bloom (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 18:06:12 PST
4 nickels is ONE paradigms, I believe.
----- Original Message -----
| For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting
From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: [MV] OT For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have
difficulty converting units:
units:
|
| -Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
|
| -2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
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| -1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
|
| -Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1
bananosecond
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| -Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
|
| -Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour =
Knotfurlong
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| -16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
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| -Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
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| -1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
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| -Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
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| -Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
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| -453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
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| -1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
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| -1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
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| -365.25 days = 1 unicycle
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| -2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
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| -52 cards = 1 decacards
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| -1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
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| -1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
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| -1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
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| -1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
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| -10 rations = 1 decoration
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| -100 rations = 1 C-ration
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| -2 monograms = 1 diagram
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| -4 nickels = 2 paradigms
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| -2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at YaleUniversity
Hospital= 1 IV League
|
| -100 Senators = Not 1 decision
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