For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting units

LadyFish

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1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi<br /><br /> 2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton<br /><br /> 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope<br /><br /> 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond<br /><br /> 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram<br /><br /> 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong<br /><br /> 7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling<br /><br /> 8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon<br /><br /> 9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz<br /><br /> 10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower<br /><br /> 11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line<br /><br /> 12! . 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake<br /><br /> 13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone<br /><br /> 14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles<br /><br /> 15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle<br /><br /> 16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds<br /><br /> 17. 52 cards = 1 decacards<br /><br /> 18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton<br /><br /> 19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen<br /><br /> 20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche<br /><br /> 21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin<br /><br /> 22. 10 rations = 1 decoration<br /><br /> 23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration<br /><br /> 24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram<br /><br /> 25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms<br /><br /> 26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League<br /><br /> 27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision
 

samagee

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Re: For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting un

Re: For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting un

LOL, although I think number 25 might actually be 4 nickels = 1 paradigm.
 

JB

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Re: For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting un

Re: For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting un

Good stuff, LF. :)
 

Peter J Fraser

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Re: For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting un

Re: For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting un

Thank you LF.<br />I will cause some mayhem with that one.<br /> :D <br />Regards<br /><br />Peter
 
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