English System Conversions

• Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League
• 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
• 1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope
• 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
• 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 Sterling
• Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
• 1000 aches = 1 megahertz
• Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
• 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
• A Half-Bath = 1 demijohn
• 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
• 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
• 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
• 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
• 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
• 10 monologues = 5 dialogs
• 5 dialogs = 1 decalog
• 100 Senators = Not 1 decision
• 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
• 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
• 10 cards = 1 decacards
• 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
• 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
• 10 rations = 1 decoration
• 100 rations = 1 C-ration
• 10 millipedes = 1 centipede
• 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
• 2 monograms = 1 diagram
• 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
• 2 wharves = 1 paradox