Some Thoughts on Life & Living

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	HANDY ENGINEERING CONVERSIONS
(with thanks to David (IEE) Turner and David (IEEE) Turner)

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: 1 Knot-furlong

7. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year

8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling

9. Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

10. 1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz

11. Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

12. Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
    (think about it for a moment)

13. 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

14. 1 billion microphones: 1 megaphone

15. 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

16. 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds

17. 10 cards: 1 decacards

18. 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

19. 1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen

20. 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

21. 1 billion pins: 1 terrapin

22. 10 rations: 1 decoration

23. 100 rations: 1 C-ration

24. 2 monograms: 1 diagram

25. 8 nickels: 2 paradigms

26. 3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

27. 100 Senators: Not 1 decision

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