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Offline Texas Mac Man

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Handy Conversion Table!!
« on: June 09, 2010, 12:58:19 PM »
This might should go in the Community form Humor post, but it's has technical conversions.  yahoo.gif

    HANDY LITTLE TOOL.
    KEEP IT AT HAND
     
    1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

    2.. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

    3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

    4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

    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. 16.5 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-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 FigNewton

    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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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2010, 02:57:08 PM »
Rich!

Great for people with a scientific or mathematical background.

Thanks, Tom!
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Handy Conversion Table!!
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2010, 03:24:02 PM »
Great table! Will keep it handy! Thanks! laughhard.gif
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF COUNTRIES
Those that use metric = #1 Measurement system
And the United States = The Banana system
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