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MCH 12-01-2010 03:30 PM

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

Ramona Byrd 12-01-2010 03:34 PM

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.

Jan in VA 12-01-2010 04:22 PM

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

Jan in VA

LindaM 12-01-2010 04:26 PM

Wonderful! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :mrgreen:

Jim's Gem 12-01-2010 04:59 PM

:) :) :) :)

stewyscrewy 12-01-2010 05:22 PM

kewl and funny


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