Subject: Important Units of Measure
Date: Fri, Feb 8 2002 00:00:08 -0500

Tanyalynnette Rosmsmarino sent us this. About half of these we saw in http://packyhumor.dardan.com/archive/1999/19990728-0827.txt, but I liked the new additions...


1 kg of falling figs is equal to 1 Fig Newton
0.5 large intestine is equal to 1 semicolon
10^6 bicycles is equal to 2 megacycles
10^-6 mouthwashes is equal to 1 microscope
16.5 ft in the Twilight Zone is equal to 1 rod Serling
Basic unit of laryngitis is equal to 1 hoarsepower
453.6 G raham crackers is equal to 1 pound cake
10^12 microphones is equal to 1 megaphone
2000 mockingbirds is equal to 2 kilomockingbirds
10 cards is equal to 1 decacards
1000 cc of wet socks is equal to 1 literhosen
10^12 pins is equal to 1 terrapin
1000 rations is equal to 1 K-ration
2 monograms is equal to 1 diagram
8 nickels is equal to 2 paradigms
2.4 statute miles of
surgical tubing at Yale
is equal to 1 I.V. Leag