USEFUL ENGLISH SYSTEM CONVERSION UNITS


Submitted to Car Talk by Neal Jackson

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
1 million billion piccolos: 1 gigolo
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope
1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
10 cards: 1 decacards
10 millipedes: 1 centipede
10 monologues: 5 dialogs
10 rations: 1 decoration
100 rations: 1 C-ration
100 Senators: Not 1 decision
1000 aches: 1 megahertz
1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling
2 monograms: 1 diagram
2 wharves: 1 paradox
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
2200 mockingbirds: two kilo mockingbirds
3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent
365.25 days: 1 unicycle
365.25 days of drinking low calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
5 dialogs: 1 decalog
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
A half bath: 1 demijohn
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 horsepower
Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey: 1 Milwaukee
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot furlong
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram