I found this list in Shortrounds desk drawer, this may explain why things are all kinda on a slant around his place And I just thought he needed a new level

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= 1 bananosecond
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. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycles
16. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
18. 10 cards = 1 decacard
19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard
20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig Newton
21. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
24. 10 rations = 1 decaration
25. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
28. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League

 

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



i like that one!

britt

 

I happened to be talking to SR on the phone when I saw this.

 

Evidently Top has too much time on his hands. I like the bananosecend one, too! I.V. League, too!!

DeWain

 

Rich

 

Oh man, that is great!!...........LOLx10!!!

 

Are those metric or SAE?

 

Whitworth

 

That's great, but I thought he was referring to the last Walleye he caught when he spoke about the microfiche.

 

"23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin"

I guess I have 1 trillion planes in my workshop - I have a "Terraplane"

DW

 

Wouldn't a terraplane be a bulldozer?

 

Since we are on the subject of planes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I'm not sure about terraplanes,,,,,,,,,,
BUT,,,,,,,, 2 Wrongs don't make a right,,,,,,,,,,,,,, However,,,,,,, 2 Wrights made an Airplane,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,Oh yeah,,,,,,, 3 rights make a left.


Now what was this thread about anyway?

 

A Terraplane is a car from the 1930's. Made by Hudson, I believe.