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Sep. 8, 2007
For all who have difficulty converting units:
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 = Knotfurlong
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1 million- microphones = 1 megaphone
2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
365.25 days = 1 unicycle
2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
52 cards = 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
1000 milliliters 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
4 nickels = 2 paradigms
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
Maybe that counted for a Sunday Quote; maybe it didn't. I sure thought it was funny, though! |
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Sep. 8, 2007 - Where do you find these things?
And about my changing covers? It's a GIF file. What is a GIF file, you ask? I don't know. Go ask David. All I know is...I said to Ryan, "Please create a transparent banner that I can stick at the top of my main entry page that says 'I write kids' books,' along with a cover that changes to display all 3 books (I'm very aware of my space problems, and don't want my blog to look cluttered). Then please make a transparent icon that folks can click separately to enter my NEW writing blog.
And...he created it. He's handy to have around, I'll say!
Talk to you on Monday, as you know I don't turn my computer on, on Sundays.