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USEFUL TABLE FOR CONVERTING UNITS
1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
4. Time between slipping on peel & smacking pavement = 1 bananosecond
5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour =
Knotfurlong
7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
> 19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
22. 10 rations = 1 decoration
23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale
University
Hospital = 1 IV League
9 comments:
Groan..... cubed.
I would love to let my folks read these... but I know Dad wouldn't get one of them. Well, maybe the billigram.
LOL, I loved these :)
Oh, brother. (That's my highest praise for puns, to which I'm addicted but of which I'm rather easily ashamed.))
My favourite by far is the bananosecond. That is permanently implanted into my usable vocabulary. :-D
Now aren't they clever. Aw gee, I just now got billigram when I read srp's comment. I kind of liked semicolon.
Now I have a headache...
Love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. Thanks for the laugh. This has undoubtedly made the rounds in many science/engineering workplaces.
Cop Car
Love them, sent them out to everyone I know.
These are great fun, Judy!
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