Friday, March 9, 2007

Conversions

Conversions
• Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
• 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
• 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
• Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1
bananosecond
• 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
• 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microScope
• Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
• Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour =
Knot-furlong
• 365 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
• 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurts
• Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
• Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
• A Half-Bath = 1 demijohn
• 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
• Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step," the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee
• 10 cards = 1 decacards
• 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
• 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
• 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
• 2 wharves = 1 paradox
• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale Univ.
Hospital = 1 I.V. League
• 100 Senators = Not 1 decision

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