For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant
conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, including all its
Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here are some other useful 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
65.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone:
1 Rod Sterling
Half of a large intestine:
1 semicolon
1000 aches:
1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
1 million-million microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:
two kilomockingbirds
10 cards:
1 decacards
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
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital:
1 I.V. League
3 feet of trash:
1 junk yard