Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Conversion Table For Engineers

*Conversions Every Engineer Should Know ...*

1.     Ratio of an igloo's  circumference to its diameter =  Eskimo  Pi
2.     2000 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 an evangelist  carries with God  = 1 billigram
6.     Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
7.     365.25 days of  drinking low  calorie beer = 1 Lite year
8.     16.5 feet in the  Twilight  Zone = 1 Rod Serling
9.     Half a large intestine =  1  semicolon
10.   1,000,000 aches = 1  megahurtz
11.    Basic  unit of laryngitis -  1 hoarsepower
12.     Shortest distance  between  two jokes = a straight line
13.     453.6 graham crackers =  1  pound cake
14.     1 million microphones = 1  megaphone
15.     1  million bicycles = 1  megacycle
16.     365 days = 1   unicycle
17.     2000 mockingbirds = two  kilomockingbirds
18.     10  cards = 1  decacard
19.     52 cards = 1  deckacard
20.     1  kilogram of falling figs  = 1 Fig Newton
21.     1000 grams of wet socks  =  1 literhosen
22.     1 millionth of a fish = 1   microfiche
23.     1 trillion pins = 1  terrapin
24.     10 rations =  1  decaration
25.     100 rations = 1  C-Ration
26.     2 monograms  = 1  diagram
27.     8 nickels = 2  paradigms
28.     5 miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League

Thanks to Akafuze for this!

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