One of my Funny Filosophers decided to measure things this week.
His report illustrates just how imaginative the English language is, or how frustrating if you are a non-English speaker.
Enjoy. . .
The Funny Filosopher’s Measurements:
1. Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2. Two thousand pounds of Chinese soup = Won Ton
3. One millionth of a mouthwash = one microscope
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = one bananosecond
5. The weight an evangelist carries with God = one billigram
6. The time it takes to sail 220 yards at one nautical mile per hour = knotfurlong
7. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = one lite year
8. 16.5 feet in The Twilight Zone = one Rod Serling
9. Half a large intestine = one semicolon
10. One million aches = one megahertz
11. One basic unit of laryngitis = one hoarsepower
12. The shortest distance between two jokes = one straight line
13. Two thousand mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
14. One kilogram of falling figs = one Fig Newton
15. One thousands ccs of wet socks = one literhosen
16. Sixteen nickels = one paradigms
17. One million-million microphones = one megaphone
18. One million bicycles = two megacycles
19. Ten cards = one decacards
20. One millionth of a fish = one microfiche
21. One trillion pins = one terrapin
22. Ten rations = one decoration
23. One hundred rations = one C-ration
24. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = one I.V. league.
And if that doesn’t leave you laughing, or at the least a little bit confused about our language, and math, nothing will. But then I was already confused about math.
Have a happy day!
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