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Belinda Barfield
05-24-2011, 11:36 AM
Scientific 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 = Knotfurlong
7. 16.5 feet in theTwilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
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. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
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

Lee Schierer
05-24-2011, 11:45 AM
Hee Hee.

Clever.

Bill Edwards(2)
05-24-2011, 1:54 PM
27. Reading five of these and leaving = Puntagon.

Paul Brinkmeyer
05-24-2011, 2:39 PM
Thanks, That is great.

Von Bickley
05-24-2011, 2:50 PM
Good One........

Montgomery Scott
05-24-2011, 5:11 PM
Not bad, but it's Rod Serling, not Sterling.

Steve Schlumpf
05-24-2011, 5:27 PM
Thanks Belinda - those were great!

Ron Jones near Indy
05-24-2011, 6:40 PM
That made me smile; I needed that today.

Lee Koepke
05-24-2011, 7:51 PM
you made that up ... all by yourself ???? clever girl !!!! :D

Belinda Barfield
05-25-2011, 7:41 AM
Not bad, but it's Rod Serling, not Sterling.

Absolutely correct, of course, I didn't catch that.


you made that up ... all by yourself ???? clever girl !!!! :D

No, not clever girl, copy cat! :D Can't state the source as it is from a site that would be deemed political.

Bill Clark De
05-26-2011, 7:56 AM
Can't understand why you consider this humour -I'm almost sure i answer some math questions on a final exam in college with some of those... But this might explain why the diploma hasn't arrived yet!!!! Hmm and all this time i blamed it on mail delivery .

Bill Clark De
05-26-2011, 8:08 AM
As an afterthought did you lend this to Harold Camper to use in his predications last week ???