Wednesday Randomness

Look for the Wednesday randomness to supply you with your day's moment of wasted time. :)

For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from MKS or CGS units to English units, here are some useful English system conversions:

• 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 megahurtz
• 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-million microphones: 1 megaphone
• 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
• 365.25 days: 1 unicycle
• 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
• 10 cards: 1 decacards
• 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
• 1000 grams 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
• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League