Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Something practical for all you engineering types~! Today's science lesson!! 1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi 2. 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong 7. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 Lite year 8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling 9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon 10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz 11. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower 12. Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line 13. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds 14. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton 15. 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen 16. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 On a test, we had to convert miles per hour to furlongs per fortnight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazy Kajun Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Long long time ago in a job far far away (City Electrical Engineer for municipally owned electric utility) if we received reports or plans without the units of measure included in the data we wrote in "arpents per fortnight squared" and then sent it back to the consultants for verification. It made for some interesting and humorous conversation and also cured them from sending plans and specs without the units clearly specified. Kajun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563L Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Thanks, I desperately needed a smile today and that was it! Dogmeat (EE) Dad PS I forwarded it to my son the AE Phd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: That was great!! Thanks for the smiles. I'll have to forward this to my dad and brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Long long time ago in a job far far away (City Electrical Engineer for municipally owned electric utility) if we received reports or plans without the units of measure included in the data we wrote in "arpents per fortnight squared" and then sent it back to the consultants for verification. It made for some interesting and humorous conversation and also cured them from sending plans and specs without the units clearly specified. Kajun You're doing good if you can learn something every day even if it is somewhat useless. Today was looking up the answer to "XXX is is an arpent?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 5, 2013 Author Share Posted March 5, 2013 Did ya find it, Marshal...? Ms Brimstone (she be one o' them engineer types) and I were discussing that very thing last night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Oh yes, arpent is described in Wikipedia. It is both a unit of length and a unit of area and is either 180 or 220 French feet. 180 French feet is about 192 English feet. yada, yada, yada. Then there is the story about the length of the MIT bridge being 364.4 Smoots plus or minus one ear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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