English System Conversions

* 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

* 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 Sterling

* Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

* 1000 aches = 1 megahertz * Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

* Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

* Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = bananosecond

* A Half-Bath = 1 demijohn * 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

* Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee

* 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

* 365.25 days = 1 unicycle * 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

* 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen

* 1 million billion piccolos = 1 gigolo

* 10 monologues = 5 dialogs

* 5 dialogs = 1 decalog

* 100 Senators = Not 1 decision

* 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

* 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

* 10 cards = 1 decacards

* 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

* 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

* 10 rations = 1 decoration

* 100 rations = 1 C-ration

* 10 millipedes = 1 centipede

* 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent

* 2 monograms = 1 diagram

* 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

* 2 wharves = 1 paradox