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John (that Alaska guy)

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Jan 17, 2008, 7:47:15 PM1/17/08
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For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting
units.

1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to it's diameter = Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 micro scope
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 banano
second
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. 6.5 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 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 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
27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision


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Regards, John (tAg)

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Jan 17, 2008, 7:54:37 PM1/17/08
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he's wrong about the igloo but then he's a southerner

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Helen Edith Stephenson

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Jan 18, 2008, 12:18:19 PM1/18/08
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In article <478f...@news.acsalaska.net>, John (that Alaska guy)
<Mun...@purposely.net> writes

These are great!

Thanks for posting, John.

Helen

Helen Edith Stephenson <helen at baronmoss dot demon dot co dot uk>
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John (that Alaska guy)

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Jan 18, 2008, 8:24:30 PM1/18/08
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"slyvixen" <slyv...@myway.com> wrote in message
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On Jan 17, 7:47 pm, "John \(that Alaska guy\)" <Mun...@purposely.net>
wrote:

> Regards, John (tAg)

John - you are so smucking fart!

As the Domestic Engineer, for Drudge Technologies, I just wanted to
tell you that, because a mind, such as yours, should never be ignored.

-sv-


Thank you. <G>

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Regards, John (tAg)

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.

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