Humor Thursday: Measure this!

Humor in two parts: Many of the conversions appeared in Design Engineering which I had provided to this guys websites. The second batch or Marketing terms I first read in another Magazine (both circa 1970 or so), back in the days if “Xerox copy humor” if that rings any bells for you. Back in 1960’s, early 1970’s email had not yet quite caught on for anything other than serious business (hey, at 300 - 9600 baud, who hasd time for 1 mbyte graphics !!). / Bob Early

Conversion Table:

Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter…………..Eskimo pi
2000 lb of Chinese soup……………………………………………….Won ton
1×10 -6 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 mi/h…………..1 knot-furlong
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer
because it’s less filling……………………………………….1 lite year
16.5 ft in the Twilight Zone…………………………………………..1 rod Serling
Half of a large intestine……………………. ……………………1 semicolon
1000 aches………………………………………………………….1 kHz
Basic unit of laryngitis……………………………………………..1 hp
Shortest distance between two jokes…………………………..1 straight line
453.6 g (graham) crackers……………………………………….1 lb cake
1 x 10+6 microphones……………………………………………1 phone
1 x 10+6 phones…………………………………………………..1 megaphone
1 x 106 bicycles……………………………………. …………….1 megacycles
365.25 days…………………………………………………………1 unicycle
2000 mockingbirds…………………………………………2 kilomockingbirds
10 cards………………………………………………………….1 decadards
1 kg of falling figs…………………………………………….1 fig Newton
1 x 10-6 fish……………………………………………………1 microfiche
1 x 1012 pins…………………………………………………..1 terrapin
10 rations……………………………………………………….1 C-ration
2 monograms………………………………………………….1 diagram
2.4 statue mi of intravenous surgical tubing
at Yale University Hospital………………………1 IV league
5 dialogs…………………………………………………….1 decalogue
100 politicians…………………………………………….