Some Humorous Unit ConversionsHere is a list of some mildly laughable unit conversions that might actually make sense to the modern common man or woman like you and me: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
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram**
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 Serling
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it a moment)
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
10 cards: 1 decacards
1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
10 rations: 1 decoration
100 rations: 1 C-ration
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: One I.V. League
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*An allusion to the Scope brand of toothpaste in the United States
**An allusion to American evangelical Christian evangelist Billy Graham—From Lifesmith Classic Fractals - Fun with the English Language
