From: Arthur Bloom (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 19:51:09 PST
One paradigm IS four nickels.
It are all a matter of point of view.
2pb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Convoy Magazine" <convoymagazine@yahoo.com>
To: "Arthur Bloom" <m35prod@optonline.net>; "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] OT For all you engineers (and other geniuses) who have
difficulty converting units:
|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>
| > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
| > <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
| > 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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