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Monday, November 20, 2006
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Engineering Conversion Tables
I don't know the source of this, but some were clever enough to repeat:
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to it's 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
Knot-furlong (for horse-racing fans)
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 Serling
Half of a large intestine
1 semicolon
1000 aches
1 kilohertz (where 1 ache = 1 hurt)
Basic unit of laryngitis
1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes
A straight line (wait for it...)
453.6 graham crackers
1 pound cake (does everyone know 453.6 grams = 1 pound ?)
1 million microphones
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds
two kilomockingbirds (work with me ...)
52 cards
1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs
1 Fig Newton
1000 cubic centimeters 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 (for you WWII vets)
2 monograms
1 diagram
8 nickels
2 paradigms
3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital
1 I.V. League (for nautical types)
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