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conversions...

PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:07 pm
by Jared
Useful English System conversions/units:
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Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital = 1 I.V. League

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won Ton

1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope

Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle

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

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

1/2 large intestine = 1 semicolon

1,000,000 aches = 1 megahertz

Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement =
1 bananosecond

1/2 bath = 1 demijohn

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step", the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee

Re: conversions...

PostPosted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:03 am
by ctjoyce
wow Jared we are on a roll now arnt we?

Cheers
Cameron

Re: conversions...

PostPosted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:20 pm
by Jared
yep couple of em I just stored in a file and posted all at once instead of trying to remember what I had posted and not posted... ;)