rfm Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 Engineers' Conversion Table This is pretty heavy scientific stuff.....converting units: 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 = Knotfurlong 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. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles 15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle 16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds 17. 52 cards = 1 decacards 18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton 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. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms 26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League 27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain-rev Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 Hi rfm, some of those are pretty funny I've been searching (with no luck) for a translation joke that was posted years ago on hcs. It had english to french to quebecois translation of different words,cracked me up. Anyways keep them coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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