September 16, 2015
Obscure engineering conversion factors
~ 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 = Knotfurlong
~ 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 Lite year
~ 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
~ Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon
~ 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
~ Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
~ 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
~ 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
~ 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen
~ 8 nickels = 2 paradigms