[SOC] Other Measurements

[Bob Patten]

For all 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  Serling

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- microphones = 1  megaphone

2 million bicycles = 2  megacycles

365.25 days = 1  unicycle

2000 mockingbirds = 2  kilomockingbirds

52 cards = 1  decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs =  1 Fig Newton

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 Yale University 
Hospital = 1 IV  League


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73,     Bob Patten, N4BP                Plantation, FL

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