[Milsurplus] Re: [TekScopes] Unit Conversions :-)

J Forster jfor at quik.com
Sun Dec 24 15:13:05 EST 2006


 From: Michael Dunn <md at cantares.on.ca>

            Engineering Conversions:
            ========================


 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 = Knot-
furlong
 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling =  1
lite
 year
 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
 Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
 1000 aches = 1 kilohurtz
 Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
 Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line. (think about  it
for a
 moment)
 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
 10 cards = 1 decacards
 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
 1000 cubic centimeters 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
 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
 3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital =
 1 I.V. League
 100 Senators = Not 1 decision


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-John



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