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Handy Engineering Conversions



My musician friends sent this

bc

P.s. some errors tho.

"T.K.Wang and Mary Brooks" wrote:

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Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 11:22 PM
Subject: Handy Engineering Conversions

Engineering conversions

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? = Knot
furlong
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 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. 1 million bicycles? 2 megacycles..
15. 365.25 days? 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds? 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 10 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. 8 nickels? 2 paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital? = 1 I.V. League
27. 100 Senators? (the correct answer wins a prize)