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mrweasel
I can haz cheezbrgr?
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 Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:17:27 Post Subject: Handy Engineering Conversions |
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* 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
* 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 (think about it for a moment)
* 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
* 1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone
* 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
* 365.25 days: 1 unicycle
* 2000 mockingbirds: 2 kilomockingbirds
* 10 cards: 1 decacards
* 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
* 1000 grams 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
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Little Bruin
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mrweasel
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| Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:54:48 Post Subject: |
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about 10 seconds....copy/paste = fun
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ZhengHe2
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mrweasel
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| Posted: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:27:47 Post Subject: |
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why does it have to be useful? Hell if usefulness were a criteria, the internet would be boring
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ZhengHe2
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| Posted: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:56:21 Post Subject: |
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| mrweasel wrote: | | why does it have to be useful? Hell if usefulness were a criteria, the internet would be boring |
Well actually I take that back. It useful; for comic relief though as per your last point, no it doesn't have to be useful but why it shouldn't it? |
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