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Conversion Factors
1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter?--Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup?--Won ton
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash?--one microscope
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement?--one bananosecond
5. Weight an evangelist carries with God?--one billigram
6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour?--Knot furlong
7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone?--one Rod Serling
8. Half of a large intestine?--one semicolon
9. 1,000,000 aches?--one megahurtz
10. Basic unit of laryngitis?--one hoarsepower
11. Shortest distance between two jokes?--A straight line
12. 453.6 graham crackers?--one pound cake
13. 1 million-million microphones?--one megaphone
14. 1 million bicycles?--two megacycles
15. 365.25 days?--one unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds?--two kilomockingbirds
17. 10 cards?--one decacards
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs?--one Fig Newton
19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks?--one literhosen
20. 1 millionth of a fish?--one microfiche
21. 1 trillion pins?--one terrapin
22. 10 rations?--one decoration
23. 100 rations?--one C-ration
24. 2 monograms?--one diagram
25. 8 nickels?--two paradigms
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital?--one I.V. League
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