Weights & Measures

Gib from Chicago, our science advisor emeritus, passes along a handy cheat-sheet of essential units of measurement:

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1. Time between slipping on a peel and hitting the pavement = 1 bananosecond
2. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 (one) RodSerling
3. Half of a large intestine = 1 (one) semicolon
4. 1,000,000 aches and pains = 1 megahurtz
5. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
6. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
7. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
8. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
9. 365.25 days = one unicycle
10. 2,000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
11. 52 cards = 1 decacards
12. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
13. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
14. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
15. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
16. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms (my favorite)
17. Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter= Eskimo pi

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