While we are on the subject of faulty engineering. . . .LOL!
--David C.
HANDY ENGINEERING CONVERSIONS
Ratio of an igloobs 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 itbs less filling: 1 lite
year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
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 mega phone
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
365.25 days: 1 unicycile
2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it b say it out loud)
10 cards: 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
1000 grams 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
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital:
1 I.V.League
100 Senators: Not 1 decision
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