Go Back  Quiltingboard Forums > General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
Engineering Equivalents...pun,pun,pun >

Engineering Equivalents...pun,pun,pun

Engineering Equivalents...pun,pun,pun

Thread Tools
 
Old 12-01-2010, 03:30 PM
  #1  
MCH
Junior Member
Thread Starter
 
MCH's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: San Francisco Bay area
Posts: 223
Default

Engineering Equivalents:

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. 6.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

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
MCH is offline  
Old 12-01-2010, 03:34 PM
  #2  
Super Member
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Merced, CA
Posts: 4,188
Default

Neat!! I'll have to send this to my Army Engineering Son-in-Law!
He has a wicked sense of humor and doesn't mind laughing at himself or others in his job.
Ramona Byrd is offline  
Old 12-01-2010, 04:22 PM
  #3  
Super Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
Posts: 8,562
Default

Now who on earth do you suppose thought this one up?!! ;)

Jan in VA
Jan in VA is offline  
Old 12-01-2010, 04:26 PM
  #4  
Super Member
 
LindaM's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Rural Small Town Ontario
Posts: 1,474
Default

Wonderful! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :mrgreen:
LindaM is offline  
Old 12-01-2010, 04:59 PM
  #5  
Moderator
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Camarillo, California
Posts: 35,242
Default

:) :) :) :)
Jim's Gem is offline  
Old 12-01-2010, 05:22 PM
  #6  
Banned
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Yulee Florida
Posts: 1,011
Default

kewl and funny
stewyscrewy is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
marand
Main
20
05-06-2019 03:36 PM
Ditter43
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
17
02-18-2013 01:27 PM
minnow895
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
7
02-09-2011 01:52 PM
Mamagus
Pictures
10
02-06-2009 03:02 PM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off



FREE Quilting Newsletter