From time to time, small issues arise among our Canadian, European and American Bloggers because of the fact that the USA uses largely Imperial units of measure, while the rest of the world (mostly) is on the metric system.
Some of the following may prove useful for those who are challenged by the conversion process.
Useful Imperial/Metric Conversions:
Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter - Eskimo Pi
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University - 1 I.V. League
2,000 pounds of Chinese soup - Won Ton
1 millionth mouthwash - 1 microscope
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier - Mach turtle
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour - Knot Furlong
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it’s less filling - 1 Lite Year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone - 1 Rod Serling
Half of a large intestine - 1 semicolon
1,000 aches - 1 megahertz
Weight an evangelist carries with God - 1 billigram
Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement - 1 bananosecond
A half bathroom - 1 demijohn
453.6 graham crackers - 1 pound cake
1 million microphones - 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles - one megacycle
2,000 mockingbirds - two kilomockingbirds
10 cards - 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs - 1 Fig Newton
1,000 milliliters of wet socks - 1 literhosen
1 millionth of a salmon - 1 microfiche
1 trillion pins - 1 terrapin
1 million billion piccolos - 1 gigolo
10 rations - 1 decoration
100 rations - 1 C-ration
10 millipedes - 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents - 1 decadent
10 monologs - 5 dialogs
2 monograms - 1 diagram
8 nickels - 2 paradigms
2 wharfs - 1 paradox
265 parliamentarians - Not 1 decision
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11 comments:
I don't know how you find this stuff, but it's incredibly good.
I remember being taught* the metric system in grade school.
*Taught = showed the word "METRIC." Never to be discussed again.
CBW---
The one I like the best is
2 wharfs - 1 paradox.
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That is so funny. Despite the fact that the metric system 'invaded' Britain years ago (and I had to teach it too) I still think in imperial measurements - as do many other older people. We go around with a dual inches/cms tape measure here and French people think it's quite amusing.
Love the ZZZZ Bears. (We say 'zed' in Britain too).
Those are birlliant!
I LOVE THIS! After all these years I can translate into metric, but my first language is still inches.
LOL Too funny.
Laughing here .. I was going to whine that all those #s were confusing my already addled brain .. then the payoff!
My morning laugh - thanks.
Great, funny and clever post. they are all good. Thanks for sharing.
I'm afraid my metric skills are nil.
Pi R squared, Cake R round silly bear!
You are a metric bear genius!
haha loved those alot!
:o)
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