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To: AFVetGal;SNow Bunny;whoever
For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here are some other useful 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

454 graham crackers:
1 pound cake

1 million-million microphones:
1 megaphone

1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds:
two 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.

153 posted on 05/10/2002 1:39:07 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: SAMWolf
Those are so funny! hahahahahaha
160 posted on 05/10/2002 1:45:54 PM PDT by Jen
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To: SAMWolf
The Lady in Waiting is so good Sam and the pretty graphic at the top too. Thank you so much.
194 posted on 05/10/2002 2:36:00 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: SAMWolf; Snow Bunny; All
This file is MP3 and might be slow to load for some, but it is well worth it, imo. There are 27 songs from our men in Vietnam on this cd.

"Six Clicks" performed by Chuck Rosenberg, was written in 1966 by Captain Hershel Gober, MACV, who was at that time serving as a sub-sector adviser in Rach Gia in IV Corps. It was recorded the same year in Saigon by General Edward Lansdale (USAF) and can be found, along with many other songs by Gober, in the superb taped collection of Vietnam War songs which were given by the general to the Library of Congress.


247 posted on 05/10/2002 4:33:37 PM PDT by MistyCA
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