6.15.2005

Conversion Factors for your Digestion

This is what happens when engineers have too much free time.   ;)
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 G~d = 1 billigram
6.   Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
7.   365.25 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 megacycle
16.  365 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.  5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V.  League

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