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Scientific Conversions

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:37 pm
by JesusA (imported)
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 the Twilight 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

Re: Scientific Conversions

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:13 pm
by Paolo
Terrapin - my favorite!

Re: Scientific Conversions

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:55 pm
by Mac (imported)
I like it.

Re: Scientific Conversions

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:18 pm
by transward (imported)
Those, my friend, deserve a major league groan. GROAN!!!

Thank you

Transward

Re: Scientific Conversions

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:07 pm
by Dave (imported)
25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms

In my book, 4 nickels are 20 cents and

two pair of dimes are 40 cents.

But then, no one ever said humor could add two plus two

;)

Re: Scientific Conversions

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:44 am
by Riverwind (imported)
transward (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:18 pm Those, my friend, deserve a major league groan. GROAN!!!

Thank you

Transward

Agree,

River