> Conversions Made Easy
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>
> For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was
> the constant conversion from MKS or CGS units to English
> units, here are some useful English system conversions.
>
> Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its 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
>
> 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 megahurtz
>
> Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
>
> Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
> (think about it for a moment)
>
> 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
>
> 1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone
>
> 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
>
> 365.25 days: 1 unicycle
>
> 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
>
> 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
>
> 10 rations: 1 decoration
>
> 100 rations: 1 C-ration
>
> 2 monograms: 1 diagram
>
> 8 nickels: 2 paradigms
>
> 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale
> University Hospital: 1 I.V. League
>
> 100 Senators: Not 1 decision
>
>
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>
> The Famous Joke of the Day One Liner!
>
> "I must admit, you brought Religion in my life. I never believed
> in Hell till I met you."
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