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Frank F · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: For the "Engineers" in all of us:

Handy Engineering Conversion

· Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi

· 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

· 1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope

· Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond

· Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

· 1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz

· Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

· Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line. (think about it for a moment)

· 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

· 1 million microphones: 1 megaphone

· 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

· 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)

· 10 cards: 1 decacards

· 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

· 1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen

· 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

· 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

· 10 rations: 1 decoration

· 100 rations: 1 C-ration

· 2 monograms: 1 diagram

· 8 nickels: 2 paradigms

· 3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

Toodles

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Jowillie · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:06 am Post subject:

Thanks Frank, I needed that this morning. We are ordering equipment soon and now I can convert it all to the "how it feels" specification table.
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