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Offline Libertas

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Scientific Conversions
« on: May 24, 2011, 12:05:16 PM »
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Scientific Conversions
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. 16.5 feet in theTwilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
22. 10 rations = 1 decoration
23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision

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Re: Scientific Conversions
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2011, 12:08:23 PM »
 :) :) :)
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Re: Scientific Conversions
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2011, 03:51:02 AM »
Drinking the same glass of milk twice = ReinCarnation

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Re: Scientific Conversions
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2011, 06:41:45 AM »
Heh, good one SH!

If I were in a proper mood perhaps I could posit a few, as it is I'm still fuming over all the crap the Boy Tyrant is wreaking upon my once great nation...I hate it when dictators start sucking the life out of me!
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Re: Scientific Conversions
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2011, 10:29:15 PM »
That's a good list!
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Re: Scientific Conversions
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2011, 10:55:05 PM »
renege = shift change at McDonald's
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