Handy Engineering Conversions

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 = Knot-furlong
   
   
7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
   
   
8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
   
   
9. 1000 aches = 1 megahurtz
   
   
10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
    
    
11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
    (think about it for a moment)
    
    
12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
    
    
13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
    
    
14. 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
    
    
15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
    
    
16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
    
    
17. 10 cards = 1 decacards
    
    
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
    
    
19. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
    
    
20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
    
    
21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
    
    
22. 10 rations = 1 decoration
    
    
23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
    
    
24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
    
    
25. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
    
    
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League
    
    
27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision

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