Little Known Conversion Factors, Explained
1: the ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2: 2,000 lbs. of chinese soup = won ton
3: 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
4: the time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
5: the weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
6: the time it takes to sail 220 yards, at 1 nautical mile per hour = knotferlong
7: 365.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 lite year
8: 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
9: half a large intestine = 1 semicolon
10: 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
11: basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
12: shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line
13: 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
14: 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
15: 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle
16: 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
17: 2,000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
18: 10 cards = 1 decacard
19: 52 cards = 1 deckacard
20: 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig Newton
21: 1,000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
22: 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
23: 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
24: 10 rations = 1 decaration
25: 100 rations = 1 C-ration
26: 2 monograms = 1 diagram
27: 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
28: 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at
Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. league
(material copyright 1995 American Physical Society, used with permission)