Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Scientific conversions

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Subject: Scientific conversions

Scientific 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
 
 5.  Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
 
 6.  Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour =  Knotfurlong
 
 7.  16.5 feet in theTwilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
 
 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.  2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
 
 15.  365.25 days = 1 unicycle
 
 16.  2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
 
 17.  52 cards = 1 decacards
 
 18.  1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
 
 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.  4 nickels = 2 paradigms
 
 26.  2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University  Hospital = 1 IV Lea
 

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