Betcha’ Didn’t Know…..Vol. 10. Conversions.



Tuesday 8th January 2008 - 10:50:16 PM

• 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 = 1bananosecond

• Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

• Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour =Knotfurlong

• 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

• Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

• 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahertz

• Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

• Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

• 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

• 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone

• 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

• 365.25 days = 1 unicycle

• 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

• 52 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

• 2 monograms = 1 diagram

• 4 nickels = 2 paradigms

• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Cornell University Hospital = 1 IV League

• 100 Senators = Not 1 decision

Ha! Ha! Ha! I bet you thought this was going to be a “real” list.

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