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For the punsters of RCM
Obscure Engineering Conversion Factors 1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2. 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement =1 bananosecond 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong 7. 365.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year 8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling 9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon 10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz 11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower 12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line 13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone 15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle 16. 365 bicycles = 1 unicycle 17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 18. 10 cards = 1 decacard 19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard 20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton 21. 1000 cc of wet socks = 1 literhosen 22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche 23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin 24. 10 rations = 1 decaration 25. 100 rations = 1 C-Ration 26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram 27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms 28. 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League Jeff -- Jeffry Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE) The speed of light is 1.8*10e12 furlongs per fortnight. |
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"jeff_wisnia" wrote in message
... Obscure Engineering Conversion Factors 1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2. 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement =1 bananosecond 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong 7. 365.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year 8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling 9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon 10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz 11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower 12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line 13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone 15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle 16. 365 bicycles = 1 unicycle 17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 18. 10 cards = 1 decacard 19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard 20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton 21. 1000 cc of wet socks = 1 literhosen 22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche 23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin 24. 10 rations = 1 decaration 25. 100 rations = 1 C-Ration 26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram 27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms 28. 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League 29. Inquisitive electrician's apprentice = Mega-what? 30. Over inquisitive electrician's apprentice = Giga-what? |
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On Sep 11, 11:43*am, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
jeff_wisnia wrote: 14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone * * * * * * * * *^^^^^ * = 1 phone, or *1 billion microphones = 1 megaphone 15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle 500,000 bicycles = 1 megacycle * * * * *^^ Otherwise, looks accurate to me. Bob What's bad is that making puns can be a nasty habit. I hope that he can find help to break this cycle. |
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