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From: MSN Nickname_Mav_GH3  (Original Message)Sent: 3/23/2006 4:00 AM
 
This is pretty heavy scientific stuff......

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. 16.5 feet in  the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod  Sterling

8. Half of a large intestine = 1  semicolon

9. 1,000,000  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. 2 million bicycles  = 2  megacycles

15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle

16. 2000  mockingbirds = 2  kilomockingbirds

17. 52 cards = 1  decacards

18. 1 kilogram of  falling figs = 1 FigNewton

19.  1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1  literhosen

20. 1 millionth of a  fish = 1 microfiche

21. 1 trillion  pins = 1 terrapin

22. 10  rations = 1 decoration

23. 100 rations =  1 C-ration

24. 2  monograms = 1 diagram

25. 4 nickels = 2  paradigms

26. 2.4  statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale  University Hospital = 1 IV  League

27. 100 Senators = Not  1 decision
                                      
                                     


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From: MSN NicknameArmchairConstantSent: 3/23/2006 4:12 AM