USEFUL ENGLISH SYSTEM CONVERSIONS/UNITS:
- 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 megahurtz
- 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
- 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
- 365.25 days: 1 unicycle
- 2200 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
- 1 million billion picolos: 1 gigolo
- 10 rations: 1 decoration
- 100 rations: 1 C-ration
- 10 millipedes: 1 centipede
- 3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent
- 10 monologs: 5 dialogs
- 5 dialogs: 1 decalog
- 2 monograms: 1 diagram
- 8 nickels: 2 paradigms
- 2 wharves: 1 paradox
- 100 Senators: Not 1 decision