June 19, 2011

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 League


27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision

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