Units of measurement --- GO METRIC! ITíS THE LAW!
To help you, here are some useful
English System conversion units.

  • Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter --- Eskimo Pi

  • 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 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 --- 1 lite year

  • 16.5 feet of silver in the Twilight Zone --- 1 Rod Sterling

  • Half of a large intestine --- 1 semicolon

  • A thousand 1000 aches --- 1 megahurtz

  • 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 --- bananosecond

  • A Half-Bath --- 1 demijohn

  • 453.6 graham crackers --- 1 pound cake

  • 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

  • 1 million microphones --- 1 megaphone

  • 1 million bicycles --- 2 megacycles

  • 365.25 days --- 1 unicycle

  • 2200 mockingbirds --- two kilomockingbirds

  • 10 cards --- 1 decacards

  • 1 kilogram of falling figs --- 1 Fig Newton

  • 1000 ccs of wet socks --- 1 literhosen

  • 1 millionth of a fish --- 1 microfiche

  • 1 trillion pins --- 1 terrapin

  • 1 thousand million piccolos --- 1 gigolo

  • 10 rations --- 1 decoration

  • 100 rations --- 1 C-ration

  • 10 millipedes --- 1 centipede

  • 3 & 1/3 tridents --- 1 decadent

  • 10 monologues --- 5 dialogs

  • 5 dialogs --- 1 decalog

  • 2 monograms --- 1 diagram

  • 8 nickels --- 2 paradigms

  • 2 wharves --- 1 paradox

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