Conversions
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:14 pm
CONVERSIONS
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
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year
Half of a large intestine:
1 semicolon
1000 pains
1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line
1 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
4 nickels:
2 paradigms
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
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year
Half of a large intestine:
1 semicolon
1000 pains
1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line
1 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
4 nickels:
2 paradigms