Re: [MV] OT For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who

Completely, absolutely, off topic, not MV related at
all.. shouldnt be here...but darn I certainly did
chuckle...

Monty
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--- Glen Closson <glen_closson (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote:
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> For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have
> difficulty converting units:
>
> -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
> billigram
>
> -Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile
> per hour = Knotfurlong
>
> -16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
>
> -Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
>
> -1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
>
> -Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
>
> -Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight
> line
>
> -453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
>
> -1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
>
> -1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
>
> -365.25 days = 1 unicycle
>
> -2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
>
> -52 cards = 1 decacards
>
> -1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
>
> -1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
>
> -1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
>
> -1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
>
> -10 rations = 1 decoration
>
> -100 rations = 1 C-ration
>
> -2 monograms = 1 diagram
>
> -4 nickels = 2 paradigms
>
> -2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at
> YaleUniversity Hospital= 1 IV League
>
> -100 Senators = Not 1 decision
>
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