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Useful English
System conversions/units: |
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Length & Distance |
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| Half of a large intestine | 1 semicolon |
| 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 |
| 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone | 1 Rod Serling |
| Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey | 1 Milliwalkee |
| Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour | Knot-furlong |
| Shortest distance between two jokes | A straight line |
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Quantity of Matter, Mass, & Weight |
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| 6.02 x 1023 avocados (This is, of course, Avocado's Number) |
1 guacamole |
| 2000 pounds of Chinese soup | won ton |
| 453.6 graham crackers | 1 pound cake |
| 1 kilogram of falling figs | 1 Fig Newton |
| 1000 grams of wet socks | 1 literhosen |
| Mass which an evangelist carries with God | 1 billigram |
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Time & Space (including units of velocity & speed) |
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| Same great 365.25 days but half the calories | 1 lite year |
| Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier | Mach Turtle |
| Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement | bananosecond |
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Light & Sound |
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| 1000 aches | 1 megahurts |
| 1 millionth mouthwash | 1 microscope |
| 1 million bicycles | 2 megacycles |
| 106 phones | 1 megaphone |
| 10-6 phones | 1 microphone |
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Biology and Medicine |
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| Basic unit of laryngitis | hoarsepower |
| 10 millipedes | 1 centipede |
| 10-15 bismols | 1 femto-bismol |
| 1 boo2 | 1 boo boo |
| 2000 mockingbirds | 2 kilomockingbirds |
| 1012 bulls | 1 terabull |
| 10-9 goats | 1 nanogoat |
| 1 millionth of a fish | 1 microfiche |
| 10-2 pedes | 1 centipede |
| 1012 pins | 1 terapin |
| 2 egorics | 1 pairegoric |
| 10-3 king machines | 1 milliking machine |
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Architecture, Construction & Home Improvement |
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| A Half-Bath | 1 demijohn |
| 2 wharves | 1 paradox |
| 10 rations | 1 decoration |
| 10-1 mates | 1 decimate |
| 2 monograms | 1 diagram |
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Sociology, Psychology, & Education Theory |
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| 109 los | 1 gigalo |
| 1015 picolos | 1 gigolo |
| 3 1/3 tridents | 1 decadent |
| 1015 files | 1 petafile |
| 10 monologs | 5 dialogs |
| 5 dialogs | 1 decalog |
| 10-2 mentals | 1 centimental |
| A face that could launch one ship | 1 millihelen |
| 8 nickels | 2 paradigms |
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Miscellaneous Conversions |
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| 10-12 boos | 1 picoboo |
| 100 rations | 1 C-ration |
| 2 spotted cubes | 1 paradice |
| 10-18 boys | 1 attoboy |
| Barney 10100 | Barney googol |
| 10 cards | 1 decacards |
| 100 Senators | Not 1 decision |
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From: A very wide
variety of sources. Thanks to all contributors! |