[ratpack] Re: Fwd: Lesser Known Metric Units
- From: Michael Wells <mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 21:11:47 -0600
Leave it to Carl. I bet he laughed his butt off.
Dr Z
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:08 PM, <humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hmmmm....what's that in REAL numbers?
>
>
> > ________________________________________
> >
> > Subject: FW: Lesser Known Metric Units
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > · 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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