Science Defined.....

[Fay A.]

Engineering Conversions

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?

Knot furlong

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. 1 million bicycles?

2 megacycles

15. 365.25 days?

1 unicycle

16. 2000 mockingbirds?

2 kilomockingbirds

17. 10 cards?

1 decacards

18. 1 kilogram of falling figs?

1 Fig Newton

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. 100 rations?

1 C-ration

24. 2 monograms?

1 diagram

25. 8 nickels?

2 paradigms

26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital?

1 I.V. League

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Horace