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



16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone:

1 Rod Serling



Half of a large intestine:

1 semicolon



1000 pains

1 kiloahurtz



Basic unit of laryngitis:

1 hoarsepower



Shortest distance between two jokes:

A straight line



454 graham crackers:

1 pound cake



1 million microphones:

1 megaphone



1 million bicycles:

2 megacycles



2000 mockingbirds:

two kilomockingbirds



10 cards:

1 decacards



1 kilogram of falling figs:

1 Fig Newton



1000 milliliters of wet socks:

1 literhosen



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



8 nickels:

2 paradigms



2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale

University Hospital:

1 I.V. League



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