[gardeners] Fwd: Math Conversions for the sunshine impaired
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:00:37 -0700
>For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101
>was the constant conversion from feet and inches to the
>metric system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and Watts,
>here are some other useful 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
>
>1000 pains: 1 kilohurtz
>
>Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
>
>Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
>
>454 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
>
>1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
>
>1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
>
>2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
>
>10 cards: 1 decacards
>
>1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
>1000 milliliters 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