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New Metric system units
From
: Herbert H Gottlieb <
herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM
>
Date
: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:34:01 -0500
-Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
-2000 pounds of Chinese soup: won ton
-millionth of a mouthwash: microscope
-Time measurement while slipping on a peel bananosecond
-Evangelist mass measurement: billigram
-Time to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: knot-furlong
-365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer filling: lite year
-Half of an intestine: semicolon
-Lethal pain: kilohurtz
-Basic unit of laryngitis: hoarsepower
-Shortest distance between two jokes: straight line
-453.6 gram crackers: pound cake
-1 million-million microphones: megaphone
-half a million bicycles: megacycle
-10 cards:: decacards
-impact measurement of fruit falling from a fig tree: Fig Newton
-1000 grams of wet socks: literhosen
-1 millionth of a fish: microfiche
-1 trillion pins: terrapin
-10 rations: decoration
-100 rations: C-ration
-2 monograms: diagram
-2.4 miles of surgical tubing - IV league
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