Punny things

USEFUL METRIC 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 Serling

� 1/2 large intestine = 1 semicolon

� 1,000,000 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 =
  1 bananosecond

� 1/2 bath = 1 demijohn

� 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

� 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 megaphone

� 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

� 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

� 10 cards = 1 decacards

� 1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn

� 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

� 10 rations = 1 decoration

� 10 millipedes = 1 centipede

� 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent

� 10 monologs = 5 dialogues

� 2 monograms = 1 diagram

� 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

� 2 baby sitters = 1 gramma grampa