Posted on 02/19/2005 9:57:36 PM PST by Swordmaker
For those who thought the hardest part of Chemistry or Physics was the constant conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, with its millimeters, kilograms and degrees Celsius, here are some other useful conversions:
The Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:
Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup equals:
Won ton
1 millionth of a mouthwash equals:
1 microscope
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement equals:
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
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:
two kilomockingbirds
10 cards:
1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton
10 rations:
1 decoration
100 rations:
1 C-ration
2 monograms:
1 diagram
8 nickels:
4 paradigms
100 Senators:
Not 1 decision
1 egoton
Result of your hearing 10,000 100dB syne waves
1 megahurtz
Friday funnies were yesterday. This was better than most of the crap there yesterday.
Thanks... just came up with another to add to my two above...
Result of driving a BoomBox truck with a sound level of 1 megahurtz (see post 1) through a crowded 2 acre parking lot.
2 megahurtz of ear achers
Helen of Troy had a face that could launch a thousand ships.
A face that can launch one ship is a mili-Helen.
Then WHAT is this???
These lips alone can SINK a thousand ships!
Shouldn't that be 102 grams of falling figs? 1kg would be 9.8 Fig Newtons.
8 nickels: 4 paradigms
Shouldn't there be a 4:1 ratio between nickels and paradigms?
ROFL!
lol! okay; back offline again....still working on some projects.....may be back later. Hope everyone's having a great day. I am....Gordon won!!! : )
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