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===Just for fun=== | |||
When he heard about the feature in the Distance activity that allows one to define new metrics on the fly, Chris Leonard sent these units for consideration: | |||
New measures. | |||
# 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 = Knotfurlong | |||
# 16.5 feet in theTwilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling | |||
# Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon | |||
# 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz | |||
# Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower | |||
# Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line | |||
# 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake | |||
# 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone | |||
# 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles | |||
# 365.25 days = 1 unicycle | |||
# 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds | |||
# 52 cards = 1 decacards | |||
# 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton | |||
# 1000 milliliters 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 | |||
# 4 nickels = 2 paradigms | |||
# 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League | |||
# 100 Senators = Not 1 decision | |||