Metric Conversions
From time to time, small issues arise between our Canadian and American Forum Folk because of the fact that the US uses largely Imperial units of measure, while Canada claims to be on the metric system. (Not for us old folks, but that's a subject for another day.) 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 take 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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