October 25, 2012

• Engineering Conversions

  Being married to an engineer I sometimes have had to decipher certain terminology.  I came upon this handy list for quick reference.

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

  2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

  1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope

  Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond

  Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram

  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

  1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz

  Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

  Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line.
  (think about it for a moment)

  453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

  1 million microphones: 1 megaphone

  1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

  2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)

  10 cards: 1 decacards

  1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

  1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen

  1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

  1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

  10 rations: 1 decoration

  100 rations: 1 C-ration

  2 monograms: 1 diagram

  8 nickels: 2 paradigms

  3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

  100 Senators: Not 1 decision

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