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Subject: Obscure Engineering Conversion Factors
a)~ Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
b)~ 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton
c)~ 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
d)~ Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
e)~ Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
f)~ Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
g)~ 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 Lite year
h)~ 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
j)~ Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon
k)~ 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
l)~ Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
m)~ 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
n)~ 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
o)~ 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen
p)~ 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
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