Can You Convert That?

 

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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

  • 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

  • 1 million billion piccolos: 1 gigolo

  • 10 rations: 1 decoration

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  • 100 rations: 1 C-ration

  • 10 millipedes: 1 centipede

  • 3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent

  • 10 monologs: 5 dialogs

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  • 5 dialogs: 1 Decalog

  • 2 monograms: 1 diagram

  • 2 wharves: 1 paradox

  • 100 Senators: Not 1 decision

~Author Unknown~

Submitted by: Harry Updegraff, Jr.


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