Handy 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

Thanks Gene

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