[Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage

[Vic Rosenthal]

No. 14 is wrong, of course. One million microphones is one phone, and a million phones is a megaphone.

Victor 4X6GP 

> On 31 Jul 2019, at 0:01, Jim KO5V <ko5v at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> These are wonderful, but I didn't see the millihelen: the quantity of face required to launch only one ship.
> 
> I really liked #17:, two kilomockingbirds...
> 
> 73, Jim
> 
> "Like these?:
> 
> 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 a peel and smacking the 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. 364.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year
> 
> 8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
> 
> 9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon
> 
> 10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
> 
> 11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower
> 
> 12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line
> 
> 13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
> 
> 14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
> 
> 15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycles
> 
> 16. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
> 
> 17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
> 
> 18. 10 cards = 1 decacard
> 
> 19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard
> 
> 20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig Newton
> 
> 21. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
> 
> 22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
> 
> 23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
> 
> 24. 10 rations = 1 decaration
> 
> 25. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
> 
> 26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
> 
> 27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
> 
> 28. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
> Hospital = 1 I.V. League"
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