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Unit Conversions
« on: November 06, 2010, 11:24:59 AM »


Unit conversions



Here is the official unit conversion chart for engineers...

1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi


2. 2,000 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 one 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 the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling


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. 2,000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds


17. 52 cards = 1 decacards


18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton


19. 1,000 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 League

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Re: Unit Conversions
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2010, 05:06:10 AM »
Groan.
Go metric, every inch of the way!

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Re: Unit Conversions
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2010, 09:17:08 PM »
Groan.

No groan...LMAO!!!!!! :D

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