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FW: units of measure

From: Lawrence A. Parker/OCCTI (occti)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 07:49:07 PST

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    I thought you might all enjoy this since you're having trouble teaching your
    kids how to use a ruler (so simple!):
    ...
    Useful English System conversions/units:

    Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi

    2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
    Hospital: 1 I.V. League

    2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

    1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope

    Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle

    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 Sterling

    Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

    1000 aches: 1 megahurtz

    Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram

    Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

    Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line

    Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond

    A Half-Bath: 1 demijohn

    453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

    Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
    step," the first step of a one-mile journey: 1 Milwaukee

    1 million microphones: 1 megaphone

    1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

    365.25 days: 1 unicycle

    2200 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds

    10 cards: 1 decacards

    1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

    1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen

    1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

    1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

    1 million billion picolos: 1 gigolo

    10 rations: 1 decoration

    100 rations: 1 C-ration

    10 millipedes: 1 centipede

    3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent

    10 monologs: 5 dialogs

    5 dialogs: 1 decalog

    2 monograms: 1 diagram

    8 nickels: 2 paradigms

    2 wharves: 1 paradox

    100 Senators: Not 1 decision 

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