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Title: Fun Conversion Equivalents - Some are USA-isms which might not equate in UK
Post by: GrannieAnnie on January 20, 2010, 10:56:54
 1.    Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

2.   2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

3.   1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen

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    Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = 1 Eskimo Pi

9.   1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

10.  Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

11.  Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line


13.  1 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 Fig Newton


20.  1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

21.  1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin



24.  2 monograms = 1 diagram

25   4 nickels = 2 paradigms

26.  2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
      Hospital = 1 IV League
Title: Re: Fun Conversion Equivalents - Some are USA-isms which might not equate in UK
Post by: asbean on January 20, 2010, 11:48:48
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Fun Conversion Equivalents - Some are USA-isms which might not equate in UK
Post by: Paulines7 on January 20, 2010, 11:53:40
 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Fun Conversion Equivalents - Some are USA-isms which might not equate in UK
Post by: Bugloss2009 on January 20, 2010, 11:59:04
13.  1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

1 million microphones is actually 1 phone  :D
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