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Handy Engineering Conversion Factors.

oldyaker

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Judging by the discussion on hull design, we have alot of Engineers on this forum, so I decided to post this handy conversion guide for ya!
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to it's diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese Soup: Won Ton
1 millonth of a mouth wash: 1 microscope
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 banano second.
Weight an Evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong
364.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite beer
16.5 feet in the Twighlight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling
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
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
2000 mocking birds: two kilomockingbirds
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 decaration
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 Ivy League
Unit of time it takes to read 'ol yak's stupid jokes: way too long!