UNIT CONVERSIONS MADE EASY....

[barrk]

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For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from MKS or CGS units to English units, here are some useful English system conversions.

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: 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: Knot-furlong

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year

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 (think about it for a moment)

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

365.25 days: 1 unicycle

2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)

10 cards: 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

1000 grams 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

8 nickels: 2 paradigms

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University

Hospital: 1 I.V. League

100 Senators: Not 1 decision

[parksie]

2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds

That one cracked me up . You read the book then?

[barrk]

I'm probably giving away my age but....I read the book in high school in the 70's and then saw the movie after that. It really had quite an impact on me. I made my kids read it when they were old enough because I thought it was important. They loved it too! Every once and awhile even my kids have to admit I'm right.

Did you read it? What did you think?

[parksie]

Yeah, I read it as part of my GCSE exam 2 years ago (that's the 16+ exam taken at the end of secondary education in Britain). We studied it for our English Literature exam and watched the film as well...and yes, it is a good book.

As far as I'm concerned, I can't really see a difference between white / coloured people.

[Juan Carlos Rey]

1 / 1000 of a tary = 1 millitary (?)