Saturday, August 22, 2009

fun with math and science

For those of us with a more shallow understanding of the facts and figures, I present:

**Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi2.
**2,000 pounds of Chinese soup = Wonton
**1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
**Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the ground = 1 bananosecond
**Weight one 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 Serling
**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
**2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
**365.25 days = 1 unicycle
**2,000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
**52 cards = 1 decacards
**1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
**1,000 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 Yale Hospital = 1 IV League
**2000 pounds of laundry = a washington

3 comments:

Tinyc Tim said...

Then of course there's the millihelen, which of course is the amount of beauty needed to launch 1 ship.

The definitive reference on this was written by David Lance Goines
 

Tobee 'n DeeDee said...

Thanks for the giggle!

BuBe said...

Thoroughly enjoyed the D L Goines article - thanks TcT