Valuable Weights and Measures
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its
diameter:
Eskimo Pi
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the
pavement:
1 bananosecond
Weight an evangelist carries with God:
1 billigram
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
1000 aches:
1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line
453.6 graham crackers:
1 pound cake
1 million-million microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
365.25 days:
1 unicycle
2000 mockingbirds:
two kilomockingbirds
10 cards:
1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton
1000 grams of wet socks:
1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish:
1 microfiche
1 trillion pins:
1 terrapin
10 rations:
1 decoration
100 rations:
1 C-ration
2 monograms:
1 diagram
8 nickels:
2 paradigms
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale
University Hospital:
1 I.V. League
2000 pounds of Chinese soup:
Won ton
1 millionth of a mouthwash:
1 microscope
