Only an engineer can really appreciate these.
Subject: Engineering Conversion Chart: 25 Groaners and One Truth
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: Knot-furlong
7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
8. Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
9. 1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
10. Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
11. Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
12. 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
13. 1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone
14. 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
15. 365.25 days: 1 unicycle
16. 2000 mockingbirds: 2 kilomockingbirds
17. 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
18. 1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
19. 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
20. 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
21. 10 rations: 1 decoration
22. 100 rations: 1 C-ration
23. 2 monograms: 1 diagram
24. 8 nickels: 2 paradigms
25. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League
26. 100 Senators: Not 1 decision
Hat tip to Larry P!
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