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To: r-q-tek86

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

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. 1,000,000 aches? = 1 megahurtz

10. Basic unit of laryngitis? = 1 hoarsepower

11. Shortest distance between two jokes? = A straight line

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 milliliters 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 IV League

27. 100 Senators? = Not 1 decision


95 posted on 08/26/2005 7:34:58 AM PDT by JimWforBush (Alcohol - For the best times you'll never remember)
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To: JimWforBush

I wanna be #99!


96 posted on 08/26/2005 7:36:59 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: JimWforBush

I wanna be #99!


97 posted on 08/26/2005 7:37:03 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: JimWforBush

I wanna be #99!


98 posted on 08/26/2005 7:37:08 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: JimWforBush

I wanna be #99!


99 posted on 08/26/2005 7:37:12 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: JimWforBush

YEAH!


100 posted on 08/26/2005 7:37:32 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: JimWforBush

103 posted on 08/26/2005 7:38:18 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: JimWforBush
HANDY ENGINEERING CONVERSIONS

Okay... I know it's a repost... and it kinda violates the "not cheese/beefcake" rule...


110 posted on 08/26/2005 7:41:58 AM PDT by r-q-tek86 (Mind Like A Steel Trap - Rusty And Illegal In 37 States)
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