Chris' Good Humor Page - Measurement Conversions 

• 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 & hitting 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: 1 lite year 
• 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling 
• 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)
• 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

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