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Posted for "Paul Lipps" <elippse@sbcglobal.net>:

  A few new conversion factors for the scientifically inclined:
  
  1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
  
  2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
  
  3. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1
  bananosecond
  
  4. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
  
  5. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour =
  Knotfurlong
  
  6. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
  
  7. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
  
  8. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahertz
  
  9. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
  
  10. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
  
  11. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
  
  12. 52 cards = 1 decacards
  
  13. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
  
  14. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
  
  15. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
  
  16. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
  
  17. 10 rations = 1 decoration
  
  18. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
  
  19. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
  
  20. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
  
  21. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Cornell
  University Hospital = 1 IV League

[Cute.  But doesn't it take 8 nickels to make 2 paradigms?   <Marv> ]