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 useful English system conversions.

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

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope

Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle

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 megahurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line

1/2 bath = 1 demijohn

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

Given the old adage, "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee

1 million microphones: 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

365.25 days: 1 unicycle

2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds

10 cards: 1 decacards

52 cards = 1 deckacard

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

1000 grams of wet socks: 1 Liter Hosen

1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

10 rations: 1 decoration

100 rations: 1 C-ration

100 millipedes = 1 centipede

3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent

10 monologs = 5 dialogues

2 wharves = 1 paradox

2 monograms: 1 diagram

8 nickels: 2 paradigms

100 Senators: Not 1 decision

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