At 11:29 AM 4/19/2011, you wrote:
This is from Jack Ganssle's web site. A bit of metric play on words:
New SI units:
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 = Knotfurlong
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. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
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. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale
University Hospital = 1 IV League
27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision
Marion Moon
A few more similar bits of wordplay from my collection:
1. 0.5 lavatory = 1 demijohn
2. 1 hoarsepower = Basic unit of laryngitis
3. 1 lite year = 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because
it's less filling
4. 1 Mach Turtle = Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier
5. 1 MilliHelen = unit of beauty required to launch one ship
6. 1 million microphones = 1 phone
7. 1 Milwaukee = Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey:
8. 1 thousand microphones = 1 megaphone
9. 10 millipedes = 1 centipede
10. 10 monologs = 5 dialogues
11. 10 opinions = 1 paradigm
12. 10^1 mate = 1 decimate
13. 10^12 boos = 1 picoboo
14. 10^12 bulls = 1 terabull
15. 10^12 microphones = 1 megaphone
16. 10^15 bismol = 1 femtobismol
17. 10^15 dogs = 1 petadog
18. 10^18 boys = 1 attoboy
19. 10^18 rays = 1 exaray
20. 10^2 mental = 1 centimental
21. 10^2 pedes = 1 centipede
22. 10^21 picolos = 10^9 los = 1 gigolo
23. 10^-3 tarries = 1 military
24. 10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles
25. 10^6 fish = 1 microfiche
26. 10^6 phones = 1 megaphone
27. 1000 aches = 1 kilohurtz
28. 1000 flies = 1 kilofly
29. 1000 rations = 1 K-ration
30. 2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
31. 2 wharves = 1 paradox
32. 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
33. 5 dialogues = 1 decalogue
34. 500 millinaries = 1 seminary
35. 8 nickles = 2 paradigms
36. Is the third offense considered a capital crime and thus meriting
a kilowhack?
Lee Sacks
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