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English Classrooms:
Funny
Metric Conversions:
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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 mouthwash = 1 microscope
•
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle
• Time
it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour =
knot-furlong
• 16.5
feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
• 1/2
large intestine = 1 semicolon
•
1,000,000 aches = 1 megahertz
•
Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
•
Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line
• Time
between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement =
1
bananosecond
• 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
• 2000
mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
• 10
cards = 1 decacards
• 1/2
lavatory = 1 demijohn
• 1
millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
• 10
rations = 1 decoration
• 10
millipedes = 1 centipede
• 3
1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
• 10
monologs = 5 dialogues
• 2
monograms = 1 diagram
• 8
nickels = 2 paradigms
• 2
baby sitters = 1 gramma grampa
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