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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
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posted July 13, 2007 11:53 PM         

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For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant conversion from MKS or CGS units to English units, here are some useful English system conversions:-------------------------------------------------------------------------Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it for a moment)
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
1 million-million microphones: 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
365.25 days: 1 unicycle
2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
10 cards: 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
10 rations: 1 decoration
100 rations: 1 C-ration
2 monograms: 1 diagram
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League

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posted July 14, 2007 02:19 AM         

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a bananosecond....!!!

wahahahaha!!

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posted July 14, 2007 09:23 AM         

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Those are good, Fayte!!

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posted July 14, 2007 09:27 AM         

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Love it!!

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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
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posted July 14, 2007 08:54 PM         

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~Judgement Must Be Balanced With Compassion~
~Do Not Seek Wealth From The Suffering, Or The Dire Needs Of Others~
~Assumption Is The Bane Of Understanding~
~ if you keep doing what you did, you'll keep getting what you got.~
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posted July 15, 2007 11:39 AM         

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Who made these up? Very good.

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From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
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posted July 15, 2007 03:01 PM         

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Xena http://jokes.hotplugins.com/3815/

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