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Title: Scientific Conversion Units
Post by: W5COA on June 22, 2011, 02:03:51 PM
Scientific Conversion Units: ;D

1. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League.
2. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi.
3. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton.
4. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope.
5. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond.
6. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram.
7. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong.
8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling.
9. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon.
10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz.
11. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower.
12. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line.
13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake.
14. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone.
15. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles.
16. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle.
17. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds.
18. 52 cards = 1 decacards.
19. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton.
20. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen.
21. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche.
22. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin.
23. 10 rations = 1 decoration.
24. 100 rations = 1 C-ration.
25. 2 monograms = 1 diagram.
26. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms.



Title: Re: Scientific Conversion Units
Post by: KA0HCP on June 22, 2011, 05:15:03 PM
You realize, of course, that this will be stolen!  :)


Title: Re: Scientific Conversion Units
Post by: KD0HUX on June 22, 2011, 05:53:34 PM
  :o ;D :o
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