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Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]>
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This isn`t an orifice, it`s help with fluorescent lighting.
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Thu, 25 Mar 2004 05:39:37 -0500
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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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