TCS - Nonstandard Measures

Found in LangaList
Published in the December 2000 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameterEskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soupWon ton
1 millionth mouthwash1 microscope
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrierMach Turtle
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone1 Rod Sterling
Half of a large intestine1 semicolon
1000 aches1 megahurts
Weight an evangelist carries with God1 billigram
Basic unit of laryngitis1 hoarse power
Shortest distance between two jokesA straight line
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavementbananosecond
10 cards1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs1 Fig Newton
1000 grams of wet socks1 literhosen
1 million microphones1 megaphone
1 million bicycles2 megacycles
500 millinaries1 seminary
2000 mockingbirds2 kilomockingbirds
1/2 lavatory1 demijohn
1 millionth of a fish1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers1 pound cake
1 trillion pins1 terrapin
1 million billion piccolos1 gigolo
100 rations1 C-ration
10 millipedes1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents1 decadent
2 monograms1 diagram
8 nickels2 paradigms



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