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A math-challenged Freeper's Guide to Easy Conversions

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


TOPICS: Humor
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2000 Hollywood stars

1 egoton

Result of your hearing 10,000 100dB syne waves

1 megahurtz

1 posted on 02/19/2005 9:57:37 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

Friday funnies were yesterday. This was better than most of the crap there yesterday.


2 posted on 02/19/2005 10:13:57 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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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

3 posted on 02/19/2005 10:29:25 PM PST by Swordmaker (Tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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To: Swordmaker

Helen of Troy had a face that could launch a thousand ships.

A face that can launch one ship is a mili-Helen.


4 posted on 02/20/2005 6:38:36 AM PST by ORECON (Condi Rice/Donald Rumsfield - 2008)
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A face that can launch one ship is a mili-Helen.

Then WHAT is this???

These lips alone can SINK a thousand ships!

5 posted on 02/20/2005 12:13:39 PM PST by Swordmaker (Tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

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?

6 posted on 02/20/2005 1:30:41 PM PST by supercat (For Florida officials to be free of the Albatross, they should let it fly away.)
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To: Swordmaker

ROFL!


7 posted on 02/20/2005 1:33:15 PM PST by sauropod (Hitlary: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

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!!! : )

8 posted on 02/20/2005 3:47:57 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: tutstar

9 posted on 02/20/2005 6:28:37 PM PST by Nightshift (Faith is something everyone has, but the question is: Faith in What?)
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To: potlatch

Humor ping


10 posted on 02/24/2005 10:04:42 PM PST by ntnychik (Proud member of the Bush-eoisie)
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