For those
who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from
feet and inches to the metric system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and
Watts, here are some other useful 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
0.014 pounds
of ground grain:
1 millistone
20
girlfriends in college:
1 score
9 inches of
mystery meat:
1 spam
1000 pains
1 kiloahurtz
Basic unit
of laryngitis:
1
hoarsepower
The power to
launch one ship:
1 milliHelen
Shortest
distance between two jokes:
A straight
line
454 graham
crackers:
1 pound cake
1 million
microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million
bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000
mockingbirds:
two
kilomockingbirds
10 cards:
1 decacards
1 kilogram
of falling flgs:
1 Fig Newton
1000
milliliters 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