Some Obscure Engineering Conversion Tables....

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Some Obscure Engineering Conversion Tables....

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

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

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. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

14. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

15. 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen

16. 8 nickels = 2 paradimes...
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Thanks for this key information.
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Old Savage wrote:Thanks for this key information.
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Math is hard...

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funny stuff, thanks for the smiles :D
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Yestiday, I kuldn't spel ingineer; tanks to you, today I are one....................... :roll:

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ok, that was bad enough to borrow
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Thanks Blaine, that's some handy conversions to have available.

I'll run off a copy to stick in with my CRC book's conversion section.
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Pete44ru wrote:.

Yestiday, I kuldn't spel ingineer; tanks to you, today I are one....................... :roll:

:mrgreen:

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Very good sir.
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17. 1 tuba equ. 3 cornets

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