Showing posts with label metric system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label metric system. Show all posts
Sunday, December 15, 2013
MORE HANDY CONVERSIONS
Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line
1 million microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:
two kilomockingbirds
10 cards:
1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton
1000 milliliters 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
Sunday, December 8, 2013
HANDY CONVERSIONS
For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 wasFrom Doug. I have more, which I will publish later.
the constant conversion from feet and inches to the metric
system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here
are some other useful conversions:
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 pains
1 kiloahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
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