USEFUL CONVERSION TABLES FOR THOSE WITH A SCIENTIFIC/ENGINEERING MIND
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 billi-gram
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 rod sterling
Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
1000 pains = 1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
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
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