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For all you non-engineers, liberal arts majors, and other pseudo-geniuses who have difficulty converting units... Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = 1 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 = Knotfurlong 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz 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 2 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 Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League 100 Senators = Not 1 decision -- Have you ever wondered what makes Californians so calm? Besides drugs, I mean. The answer is hot tubs. A hot tub is a redwood container filled with water that you sit in naked with members of the opposite sex, none of whom is necessarily your spouse. After a few hours in their hot tubs, Californians don't give a damn about earthquakes or mass murderers. They don't give a damn about anything , which is why they are able to produce "Laverne and Shirley" week after week. -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw" --- OMX/Blue Wave/DOS v2.30* Origin: Soundly on the Fault Line (1:123/666.0) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 5030/786 @PATH: 123/666 500 106/2000 633/267 |
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