"handy Engineering Conversions...."

[Guest Nishka]

"HANDY ENGINEERING CONVERSIONS...."

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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? = Knot furlong

 

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. 1 million bicycles? = 2 megacycles..

 

15. 365.25 days? = 1 unicycle

 

16. 2000 mockingbirds? = 2 kilomockingbirds

 

17. 10 cards? = 1 decacards

 

18. 1 kilogram of falling figs? = 1 Fig Newton

 

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. 8 nickels? = 2 paradigms

 

26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital? = 1 IV League

 

27. 100 Senetors? = Not 1 decision