LukkyKnight
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Come on, think about it, you can get that answer...
A dear friend sent these conversions, and I snuck in from someplace I maybe shouldn't be posting from to share them with you... if you're in the U.S. think of it as setting up the Holiday weekend. If you're having a Friday elsewhere, think of it as TGIF humor. If you're the other side of the dateline why not go out on a date instead of reading at lit?
Do you have your answer ready?
A straight line.
Come on, think about it... a straight line... get it?
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 aches:
1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
453.6 graham crackers:
1 pound cake
1 million microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:
Two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
10 cards:
1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton
1000 cubic centimeters 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
3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital:
1 I.V. League
100 Senators:
Not 1 decision
A dear friend sent these conversions, and I snuck in from someplace I maybe shouldn't be posting from to share them with you... if you're in the U.S. think of it as setting up the Holiday weekend. If you're having a Friday elsewhere, think of it as TGIF humor. If you're the other side of the dateline why not go out on a date instead of reading at lit?
Do you have your answer ready?
A straight line.
Come on, think about it... a straight line... get it?
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 aches:
1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
453.6 graham crackers:
1 pound cake
1 million microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:
Two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
10 cards:
1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton
1000 cubic centimeters 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
3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital:
1 I.V. League
100 Senators:
Not 1 decision
