Useful English
System Conversions/units:
Ratio of Igloo's circumference to its
diameter: Eskimo Pi
2.4 Statue miles of intravenous surgical
tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope

Speed of tortoise breaking the sound barrier:
Mach Turtle
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 is less filling: 1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod
Sterling

Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
100 aches: 1 megahurtz
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1
billigram
Basic unit of laryngitis : 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes: A
straight line
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking
the payment: bananosecond
A Half-Bath: 1 demijohn
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

Given the old adage, "A journey of a
thousand miles begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey: 1
Milwaukee
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
365.25 days: 1 unicycle
2200 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
1 million billion piccolos: 1 gigolo
10 rations: 1 decoration


~Author Unknown~
Submitted by: Harry Updegraff, Jr. |