Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Engineers' Conversion Table

Conversion factors that every engineer should know:

from my brother, to give credit where it is due.

 

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. 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. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
22. 10 rations = 1 decoration
23. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
24. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
25. 2.4 miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League

8 comments:

  1. I loved this! Such witty and truely awesome conversion descriptions. I'd love to copy this to my blog if i may?

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  2. I loved this! Thanks Blog Fodder!

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  3. Have you been stealing jokes from the grand kids school again?

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  4. Normally I am accused of getting my jokes from my grandfather.

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  5. That's hilarious. I'm probably going to "borrow" it to send to a friend.

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  6. I'm with SW on this! I'd love to borrow it to.

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