For those who thought the hardest part of Ham Radio 101 was passing the
novice written exam, let alone (Heaven forbid) the constant conversion from
feet and inches to the metric system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and
Watts, here are some other useful conversions:
Pick the one(s) that are correct -
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:
Knot-furlong
65.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone:
1 Rod Serling
Half of a large intestine:
1 semicolon
1000 aches:
1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line
454 graham crackers:
1 pound cake
1 million-million microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:
two kilomockingbirds
10 cards:
1 decacards
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
10 rations:
1 decoration
100 rations:
1 C-ration
2 monograms:
1 diagram
8 nickels:
2 paradigms
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital:
1 I.V. League
100 Senators:
Not 1 decision.
Bill K5BDZ
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