Fun_People Archive
31 Jan
Units Update 1/31/00
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Also see:
http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/1993/1993ACA.html
http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/1995/1995ABU.html
http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/1997/1997AZB.html
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 of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle
Marine oil leaking at 0.1086221 square nautical miles per hour -- knot-furlong
365.25 days 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 1 cc of evangelist tears 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
2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
10 cards: 1 decacards
1 kilogram of figs falling 1 meter per second squared: 1 Fig Newton
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
10^21 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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