I received this in an email from a parent of a student I have tutored:
New IEEE standard values:
Non-Conventional Units of Conversion
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 = Knotfurlong
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
Half of a large intestine = 1 Semicolon
1,000,000 aches = 1 Megahurtz
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
2 million bicycles = 2 Megacycles
365.25 days = 1 Unicycle
2000 mockingbirds = 2 Kilomockingbirds
52 cards = 1 Decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
1000 milliliters 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
4 nickels = 2 Paradigms
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital = 1 IV League
and… 100 Politicians = Not 1 decision
