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> ]