Re: OT For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have difficulty converting units:

From: Convoy Magazine (convoymagazine@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 18:33:35 PST

4 nickels ARE one paradigm teehheee
or
8 nickels are two paradigms
or
is there even any nickel in them anymore
anyway...hahrhahar

anyone else ;-) ???

--- Arthur Bloom <m35prod@optonline.net> wrote:

> 4 nickels is ONE paradigms, I believe.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:47 PM
> Subject: [MV] OT For all you engineers (and other
> geniuses) who have
> difficulty converting units:
>
>
> | For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who
> have difficulty converting
> units:
> |
> | -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 =
> Knotfurlong
> |
> | -16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
> |
> | -Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
> |
> | -1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
> |
> | -Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
> |
> | -Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight
> line
> |
> | -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
> |
> | -52 cards = 1 decacards
> |
> | -1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
> |
> | -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
> |
> | -4 nickels = 2 paradigms
> |
> | -2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing
> at YaleUniversity
> Hospital= 1 IV League
> |
> | -100 Senators = Not 1 decision
> |
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