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Author: Subject: Units of measurement.
Peteff

posted on 15/7/06 at 08:04 AM Reply With Quote
Units of measurement.

Some are a bit contrived but they work for me

Handy Conversions

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

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

One millionth of a mouthwash: One microscope

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

Weight an evangelist carries with God: One billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at one nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: One lite year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: One Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine: One semicolon

1000 aches: One kilohurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis: One hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it for a moment)

453.6 graham crackers: One pound cake

One million microphones: One megaphone

One million bicycles: Two megacycles

2000 mockingbirds: Two kilomockingbirds (work on it...)

10 cards: One decacards

One kilogram of falling figs: One Fig Newton

1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: One literhosen

One millionth of a fish: One microfiche

One trillion pins: One terrapin

10 rations: One decoration

100 rations: One C-ration

Two monograms: One diagram

Eight nickels: Two paradigms

Three statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: One I.V. League





yours, Pete

I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.

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smart51

posted on 15/7/06 at 10:07 AM Reply With Quote
Clever.
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Confused but excited.

posted on 15/7/06 at 03:35 PM Reply With Quote
Most excellent !





Tell them about the bent treacle edges!

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leto

posted on 15/7/06 at 04:45 PM Reply With Quote
I think there is something wrong with the phones, one million microphones only add up to a singel phone. You will need 1000 000 000 000 microphones to make a megaphone.





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I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round”. (J. Cash)

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