Engineers' Conversion Table

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  Posted by RevBigJohn September 13, 2015 - Filed in Personal Journal - 1,051 views
  

   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 Serling
   8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
   9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahertz
   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. 1000 mockingbirds =1 kilomockingbirds
   17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
   18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
   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