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Obscure Engineering Conversion Factors 6

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gbaughma

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A friend sent me this. A couple of them made me smile, so I thought I'd share.

Obscure Engineering 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 = 1 microscope

4. Elapsed time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

7. 365.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year

8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon

10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower

12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line

13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle

16. 365 bicycles = 1 unicycle

17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

18. 10 cards = 1 decacard

19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard

20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

21. 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen

22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

24. 10 rations = 1 decaration

25. 100 rations = 1 C-Ration

26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram

27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

28. 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = One I.V. League

Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
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You provided me a great laugh. Hava
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BTW, I would have thought that 2 paradigms = 8 nickles. What did I miss?



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Two pairs of dimes = 40 cents.
40 cents = 8 nickels.



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
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Wait... what did *I* miss? I'm looking at #27.... and that's what you said, and that's what I said....

Of course, I see that they missed one....

2 physicians = 1 paradox



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"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
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... and another one that I use often....

The time between you clicking "OK", and realizing that it really wasn't... = an ohnosecond



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
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My bad...not wearing my glasses, added to not having my brain in gear, I read it as "27.8 nickels = 2 paradigms"..."27.8" I wondered what 27.8 nickels meant. Duh.

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[rofl]

Happy Easter, Dave.


Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
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NASA's standard unit of speed measure* - furlongs per fortnight

*When designing Martian missions that slam into the planet

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Excellent list!!

Loving number 17. Superb.
 
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Small quibble - I've always thought a League = 3 miles (#28)

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...And, unfortunately, a league is, perhaps, the least precise of just about any unit of measurement: 2.4 to 4.6 statute miles (nearly a 100% margin of error).

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Very Clever list; I've already forwarded it to my engineering friends. One more small quibble:

21. 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen

In German, socks are socken and a pair of pants is hosen

still worth a star.

sam


 
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Good point.



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg
 
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Sam, a little quibble with your quibble...

in the 13th Century, "Socken" or "Strümpfe" where joined to form "Hosen", which where then again separated from the knee down in the 16th Century...

but we do not want to be nit-picking... ;-)



here are a few more:

1. 1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn
2. 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
3. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
4. 2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
5. 2 wharves = 1 paradox



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BadBigBen said:
in the 13th Century
Click to expand...

Clearly you're much older and wiser than me!

I thought hosen were something you kept your hose in.

Sam
 
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Keep your hose where you like Sam, I've got mine on a reel (not that I'm bragging or owt!) ;-)

2 Monocles = Spectacles perhaps?



The internet - allowing those who don't know what they're talking about to have their say.
 
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When an apples diameter is 1, is its circumference considered a PiNapple?

I need some help with this feeble attempt!!
 
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mcallisto,

I like it.
Then

Circumference of an apple/diameter of an apple = Apple Pie
and
Circumference of an apple=PiNApple where diameter of an apple=N
 
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Very clever Stella740pl.

I knew there was a Obscure Engineering Conversion Factor there somewhere.

Sam

 
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