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To: Carole Olkowski who wrote (13123)	1/21/2000 3:04:00 PM
From: Ian@SI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

Useful English System conversions/units: ======================================== Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won Ton 1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = knot-furlong 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling 1/2 large intestine = 1 semicolon 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahertz Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond 1/2 bath = 1 demijohn 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee Useful Metric Conversions: ========================== 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles 365.25 days = 1 Unicycle 500 millionaires = 1 seminary 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 10 cards = 1 decacards 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 Liter Hosen 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin 1 million billion piccolos = 1 gigolo 10 rations = 1 decoration 100 rations = 1 C-ration