Handy Engineering Conversions
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:55 pm
a.. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
b.. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
c.. 1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
d.. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1
bananosecond
e.. Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
f.. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
Knot-furlong
g.. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1
lite year
h.. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
i.. Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
j.. 1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz
k.. Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
l.. Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line. (think about it
for a moment)
m.. 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
n.. 1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
o.. 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
p.. 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
q.. 10 cards: 1 decacards
r.. 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
s.. 1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen
t.. 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
u.. 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
v.. 10 rations: 1 decoration
w.. 100 rations: 1 C-ration
x.. 2 monograms: 1 diagram
y.. 8 nickels: 2 paradigms
z.. 3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital: 1 I.V. League
aa.. 100 Senators: Not 1 decision
b.. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
c.. 1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
d.. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1
bananosecond
e.. Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
f.. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
Knot-furlong
g.. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1
lite year
h.. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
i.. Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
j.. 1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz
k.. Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
l.. Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line. (think about it
for a moment)
m.. 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
n.. 1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
o.. 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
p.. 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
q.. 10 cards: 1 decacards
r.. 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
s.. 1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen
t.. 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
u.. 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
v.. 10 rations: 1 decoration
w.. 100 rations: 1 C-ration
x.. 2 monograms: 1 diagram
y.. 8 nickels: 2 paradigms
z.. 3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital: 1 I.V. League
aa.. 100 Senators: Not 1 decision