Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 20:37:19 -0800
Subject: The Metric System
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1 million, million Microphones = 1 Megaphone
500,000 Bicycles = 1 Megacycle
500 Millineries = 1 Seminary
1000 Millineries = 1 Unary
2000 Mockingbirds = 2 Kilomockingbirds
52 Cards = 1 decacard
10 Report Cards = 1 Centigrade
1 million, billion Piccolos = 1 Gigolo
2 Piers = 1 Paradox
1 trillion Pins = 1 Terrapin
10 Rations = 1 Decoration
100 Rations = 1 C-ration
10 Millipedes = 1 Centipede
3 1/3 Tridents = 1 Decadent
3 Decadents = 1 Polident
5 Holocausts = 1 Pentacost
2 Monologues = 1 Dialogue
5 Dialogues = 1 Decalogue
2 Monograms = 1 Diagram
4 Nickels = 1 Paradigm
1 milli-Helen = the amount of beauty that can launch a single ship
(Most of these can be found at
http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/science/units.html)
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> From: Price, Steven
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 12:11 PM
> Subject: FW: Useful Metric Conversions.
>
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> >1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn
> >1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
> >453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
> >1 trillion grams of brown marijuana = 1 Terracotta pot
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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:42:13 EDT (18:42 CDT)
Subject: Conversion Units
Some Useful(?) Conversion Units
(courtesy of Lapp-Hancock Associates Limited, an
Ottawa-based firm of consulting engineers)
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2,000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
365.24 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
1,000 aches: 1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
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From: ian
Date: 2001.may.17
1 soviet half-truth = 1 demitasse
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others:
4 warned = 1/2 octopus;
2 octopi = 1 hexadecapod
On a serious note:
check out this
tour of 10+23m down to 10-15m.