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Subject: Engineering Conversions
From: JNiolon@uss.com
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:06:25 -0500
Knowing that the cumulative I.Q. of this prestigious group MUST be in the
five digit range (including decimals of course) and  considering  the
collective technical knowledge and expertise is mind boggling to laymen...
I'm sure this list of engineering conversion factors will be put to use in
your shops daily....


 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? =1 Knot
furlong
 7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone? = 1 Rod Serling
 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. 1 million bicycles? = 2 megacycles..
15. 365.25 days? = 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds? = 2 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. 8 nickels? = 2 paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital?
     = I.V. League

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