| For those who thought the hardest part of Chemistry 101 was the constant conversion from English units to mks or cgs units, here are some additional useful conversions.
| Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter |
Eskimo pi |
| 2000 lb of Chinese soup |
Won ton |
| 1 × 10–6 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 mi/h |
1 knot–furlong |
| 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it’s less filling |
1 lite year |
| 16.5 ft in the Twilight Zone |
1 rod Serling |
| Half of a large intestine |
1 semicolon |
| 1000 aches |
1 kHz |
| Basic unit of laryngitis |
1 hp |
| Shortest distance between two jokes |
1 straight line |
| 453.6 g (graham) crackers |
1 lb cake |
| 1 × 106 microphones |
1 phone |
| 1 × 106 phones |
1 megaphone |
| 1 × 106 bicycles |
2 megacycles |
| 365.25 days |
1 unicycle |
| 2000 mockingbirds |
2 kilomockingbirds |
| 10 cards |
1 decacards |
| 1 kg of falling figs |
1 fig Newton |
| 1 × 10–6 fish |
1 microfiche |
| 1 × 1012 pins |
1 terrapin |
| 10 rations |
1 decoration |
| 100 rations |
1 C-ration |
| 2 monograms |
1 diagram |
| 8 nickels |
2 paradigms |
| 2.4 statute mi of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital |
1 IV league |
| 5 dialogues |
1 decalogue |
| 100 politicians |
<1 decision |
This item was contributed by Lorraine Marceau-Day of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, who found it on www.MeMail.com,
and has been supplemented with suggestions from Jeremy Salter of Pfizer Research and Chemical Innovation staff. Thanks to Anne Kuhlmann Taylor for alerting us.
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