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Engineering Conversion Factors for Homebuilders

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LBarron

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Some helpful conversion factors for the amateur designers:
:silly:


1 . Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2. 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

7. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 Lite year

8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon

10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

11. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

12. Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line

13. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

14. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

15. 1000 cc’s of wet socks = 1 literhosen

16. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

17. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

18. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

19. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle

20. 365 bicycles = 1 unicycle

21. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

22. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

23. 10 rations = 1 decaration

24. 100 rations = 1 C-Ration

25. 2 monograms = 1 diagram

26. 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League



 
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