Conversions Made Easy 
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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