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08-18-2004, 10:18 PM
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WhY sO SiRiUs?
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Useful Scientific Measurements
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 = Knot-furlong 7. 365.25 days of drinking lowcalorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year 8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 rod-Serling 9. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon 10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz 11. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower 12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 13. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone 14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles 15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle 16. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 17. 10 cards = 1 decacards 18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton 19. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen 20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfish 21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terapin 22. 10 rations = 1 decaration 23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration 24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram 25. 8 nickels = 2 paradimes 
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