spectr17
06-08-2001, 05:22 PM
I know we have some engineers here and a lot of guys who like to tinker, so I thought this ###chart of conversions might come in handy.
HANDY ENGINEERING 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 soda = 1 lite year
*16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
*Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
*1000 aches = 1 kilohurtz
*Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
*Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
*453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
*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 cubic centimeters 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
*2 monograms = 1 diagram
*8 nickels = 2 paradigms
*3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League
HANDY ENGINEERING 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 soda = 1 lite year
*16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
*Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
*1000 aches = 1 kilohurtz
*Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
*Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
*453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
*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 cubic centimeters 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
*2 monograms = 1 diagram
*8 nickels = 2 paradigms
*3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League