Biosystems Engineering
at Oklahoma State University
Handy
Engineering Conversions
(10/31/00)
Here's a list of conversions that you
will never use in class.
- 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 kilohurtz
- Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
- Shortest distance between
two jokes: A straight line (Think about it for a moment.)
- 453.6 graham crackers: 1
pound cake
- 1 million microphones: 1
phone
- 1 trillion microphones: 1
megaphone
- 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
- 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
- 100 Senators: Not 1 decision
- **And my personal favorite:
2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (Work on it....)
