You forgot one of my favorites: 10^21 piccolos equals 1 gigolo.
Nat >>> Like so many people before you who have submitted that list, you have the microphone one wrong. A megaphone is one trillion (10^12) microphones. A million microphones equals one phone. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma@;colostate.edu]On >Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 08:05 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:22995] measurement jokes > > >I found these on the internet, I don't understand all of them because I >think some of them are American cultural references, but here you go: > >Amount of beauty needed to launch a ship: >1 millihelen > >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 pains >1 kiloahurtz > >Basic unit of laryngitis: >1 hoarsepower > >Shortest distance between two jokes: >A straight line > >454 graham crackers: >1 pound cake > >1 million microphones: >1 megaphone > >1 million bicycles: >2 megacycles > >2000 mockingbirds: >two kilomockingbirds > >10 cards: >1 decacards > >1 kilogram of falling figs: >1 Fig Newton > >1000 milliliters 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 > > >-- >Terry Simpson >Human Factors Consultant >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.connected-systems.com >Phone: +44 7850 511794 >
