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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Yaacov who wrote (18320)3/6/2001 9:50:05 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 62592
 
Understanding the Metric System

1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

10 cards = 1 decacards (or is it 52 cards = 1 deck-a-cards?)

1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn

1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

10 rations = 1 decoration

10 millipedes = 1 centipede

3-1/3 tridents = 1 decadent

10 monologs = 5 dialogues

2 monograms = 1 diagram

8 nickles = 2 paradigms
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