Useful Conversion Units

While I'm zoned out on the couch today recovering from a nasty intestinal virus, here's some conversion units you may find helpful:

• 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

• Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

• 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

• 1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope

• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League

• Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle

• Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong

• 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling

• 1000 aches = 1 megahurts

• Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

• Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

• Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = bananosecond

• Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong

• Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee

• 1 million microphones = 1 phone

• 1 trillion microphones = 1 megaphone

• 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

• 365.25 days = 1 unicycle

• the weight of 1 TV evangelist = 1 billigram

• 10 cards = 1 decacards

• 2 snake eyes = 1 paradise

• 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

• Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

• 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

• 100 tics = 1 hectic

• 500 millinaries = 1 seminary

• 1000 female sheep = 1 milieu

• 10 rations = 1 decoration

• 100 rations = 1 C-ration

• 10 millipedes = 1 centipede

• 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent

• 10 monologs = 5 dialogs

• 5 dialogs = 1 decalog

• 2 monograms = 1 diagram

• 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

• 2 doctors = 1 paradox

• 2 wharves = 1 paradox

• 4 lawyers = 2 paralegals

• 2 untruths = 1 paralyze

• 33.8 oz of a case of soft drinks = 1 liter of the pack