The following article came to me recently and I contended that I should pass it on.  It has been slightly edited and a conclusion added.

   For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here are some other useful conversions:

  1) Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pie
  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 soda 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) 1000 pains: 1 kiloahurtz
11) Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
12) Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
13) 454 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
14) 1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
15) 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
16) 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
17) 10 cards: 1 decacards
18) 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
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) 100 Senators: Not 1 decision

A cheerful heart is good medicine... (Prov 17:22a)

 

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