Obscure Engineering Conversion Factors
- 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 = Knotfurlong
- 365.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year
- 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
- Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon
- 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
- Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower
- Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line
- 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
- 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
- 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle
- 365 bicycles = 1 unicycle
- 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
- 10 cards = 1 decacard
- 52 cards = 1 deckacard
- 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
- 1000 cc of wet socks = 1 literhosen
- 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
- 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
- 10 rations = 1 decaration
- 100 rations = 1 C-Ration
- 2 monograms = 1 diagram
- 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
- 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League
Jeff