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Strange Engineering Conversion Factors

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:32 pm
by Niner Delta
Strange Engineering Conversion Factors

1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2. 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

7. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 Lite year

8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon

10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

11. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

12. Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line

13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle

16. 365 bicycles = 1 unicycle

17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

18. 10 cards = 1 decacard

19. 52 cards = 1 deckacards

20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

21. 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen

22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

24. 10 rations = 1 decaration

25. 100 rations = 1 C-Ration

26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram

27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

28. 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = One I.V. League.

Re: Strange Engineering Conversion Factors

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:40 pm
by Woftam
Very clever. However, while I get all the rest I don't get number 3.
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
It makes no sense at all to me.

Re: Strange Engineering Conversion Factors

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:02 am
by Niner Delta
Scope is a very popular brand of mouthwash in the US.

Vern.

Re: Strange Engineering Conversion Factors

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:03 am
by Woftam
OK, that makes sense now.
Thanks Vern.

Re: Strange Engineering Conversion Factors

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:16 pm
by Aughnanure
Graeme,

I'm surprised that you didn't know that, a man of your wide experience and travels.

Neither did I :D