[ratpack] Fwd: Lesser Known Metric Units
- From: humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: ratpack <ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pam Crosby <mkbee2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:08:40 +0000 (UTC)
Hmmmm....what's that in REAL numbers?
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> Subject: FW: Lesser Known Metric Units
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> Despite never having adopted the metric system for day to day life, Americans
> are familiar with the basic units, like grams (especially kilograms), meters
> and such. But when it comes to lesser known units, they're clueless, so we
> thought we'd help the educational process along a bit.
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> · 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
> · Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
> · 2,000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
> · 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 = 1 straight line
> · 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
> · 1 million-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 FigNewton
> · 1,000 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
> and...
> · 100 Senators = Not 1 good decision
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