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Handy Engineering Conversions


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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

* 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie soda = 1 lite year

* 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

* Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

* 1000 aches = 1 kilohurtz

* Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

* Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

* 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

* 1 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 cubic centimeters 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

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