Entertaining Engineering Conversions

– 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: Knot-furlong

– 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling

– Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

– 1000 aches: 1 megahurtz

– Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

– Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it for a moment)

– 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

– 10 cards: 1 decacards

– 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

– 1000 grams 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

– 8 nickels: 2 paradigms

– 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

– 100 Senators: Not 1 decision

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