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 AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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