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Have you seen the new standards of measurement?

1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2. 2,000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

5. Weight one evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling

8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower.

11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone

14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle

16. 2,000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

17. 52 cards = 1 decacards

18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton

19. 1,000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 lederhosen

20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

22. 10 rations = 1 decoration

23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration

24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram

25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms

26. 2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Makes sense:)

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I liked -

    8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

    9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

    10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower.

    14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

    18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Wow

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sounds like we have some new paradigms here.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    lol nice, keep em coming

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  • daisy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Oh, fine....something else I need to learn. Does it ever end? ;)

  • manny
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    lol nice!!!

  • 1 decade ago

    chuckled again !! Thanks for keeping 'em coming.

  • 1 decade ago

    That was wonderful! Thanks for posting!

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