I didn't come up with this, but it strikes me as being very homeschoolerish. You've got your fractions (math), your homonyms (language arts), your metric terms (science), and a bit of world culture (history). Read it to your kids while they're doing jumping jacks and you've covered a whole day's worth of schooling.
• Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. league
• 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
• 1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope
• Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle
• 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year
• Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
• 1000 aches = 1 megahertz
• Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
• Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = bananosecond
• 10 cards = 1 decacards
• 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
• 10 rations = 1 decoration
• 2 monograms = 1 diagram
• 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
• 2 wharves = 1 paradox
I LOVE the "bananosecond"!! That would have been perfect for my 5 year old because he actually DID slip on a banana peel a few weeks ago!!! We cracked up because I had never actually seen ANYONE slip on one!!! He fell and was fussing UNTIL I said, "oh honey, what happened??" and he looked down and said "I slipped on a banana peel" and we both were in stitches!!!!
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