A couple of my nephews can't help but jab at me once in a while.
Norm
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From: "Schwarz, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Werling, Norman'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 2001March06 09:47
Subject: FW: HANDY ENGINEERING CONVERSIONS
> Thought you might enjoy these too. Some are metric.
> Dan
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 7:58 AM
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> Subject: HANDY ENGINEERING CONVERSIONS
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> I am sure these will help in your every day life.
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> HANDY ENGINEERING 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
>
> ~ 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
>
> ~ Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
>
> ~ 1,000,000 aches: 1 megahurtz
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> ~ 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 microphones: 1 megaphone
>
> ~ 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
>
> ~ 365.25 days: 1 unicycle
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> ~ 2000 mockingbirds: 2 kilomockingbirds
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> ~ 10 cards: 1 decacards
>
> ~ 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
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