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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