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To: "Tiger's Den" <tigers@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Conversion Tables
From: Steve Laifman <SLaifman@SoCal.RR.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:04:24 -0700
Tigers and 'Pines,

We are constantly looking for conversion factors, here in the colonies,
when faced with metric measurements, British Measurements (like 1/4 inch
Whitworth, Imperial Gallons, fortnights, and bonnets) that I have
collected an eclectic set of conversion factors for situations you may
face. I'll bet you didn't know our energy crises is caused by selling
energy sources in British Thermal Units!

Keep a copy in your wallet, in the event you need a quick answer.

Handy Conversion Factors, Validated by a Rocket Scientist

 For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant
 conversion from MKS or CGS units to English units, here are some other
 useful quantity 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:
     Knot-furlong

 7.) 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1
 lite year

 8.) 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling

 9.) Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

 10.) 1 million 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-million microphones: 1 megaphone

 15.) 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

 16.) 365.25 days: 1 unicycle

 17.) 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds

 18.) 10 cards: 1 decacards

 19.) 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

 20.) 1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen

 21.) 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

 22.) 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

 23.) 10 rations: 1 decoration

 24.) 100 rations: 1 C-ration

 25.) 2 monograms: 1 diagram

 26.) 8 nickels: 2 paradigms

 27.) 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
      Hospital: 1 I.V. League
 28.) 100 Senators: Not 1 decision


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