The last conversion is probably the closest to the truth!

Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.


Strange Conversion Units

For all who have difficulty converting  units:
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
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
453.6 graham crackers = 1  pound cake
1 million- microphones = 1  megaphone
2 million bicycles = 2  megacycles
365.25 days = 1  unicycle
2000 mockingbirds = 2  kilomockingbirds
52 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
4 nickels = 2  paradigms
2.4 statute miles of  intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital = 1 IV  League
AND.......100 Senators = Not 1  decision
 

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