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Legacy Posts · 10-14-2002, 06:39 PM

We Americans (defined as residents of the USA) frequently have problems with metric conversions. In an attempt to clarify the conversion process I now submit some "Useful Metric Conversions."

1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
2 monograms = 1 diagram
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 wharves = 1 paradox

by: Richard Sobocinski

Legacy Posts · 10-14-2002, 08:28 PM

very good Morgan, :sunny
BUT there are
52 cards in 1 decacards
trust me I know this, I just counted them. :cblob

Legacy Posts · 10-14-2002, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Orginally posted by Thomas and Janifer

very good Morgan, :sunny
BUT there are
52 cards in 1 decacards
trust me I know this, I just counted them. :cblob

Jan Pullstrailerwithyellowescape,

I didn't EVEN catch that.

Glad to see your signature restored; I like that :angel

Legacy Posts · 10-15-2002, 01:29 PM

...up here in the Great White North. It makes me seem taller! :)

Legacy Posts · 10-15-2002, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Orginally posted by Rick

...up here in the Great White North. It makes me seem taller! :)

But you're only two meters tall, down here you coud be six feet tall ;)

Legacy Posts · 10-15-2002, 07:34 PM

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League

Unit of beauty required to launch one ship = milli-Helen

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong

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

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope

1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = bananosecond

A Half-Bath = 1 demijohn

Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee