OBSCURE CONVERSIONS
From Seniorific News/Nov. 2016
· Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
· 2000 pounds of Chinese Soup = Won ton
· Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 banana second.
· Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
· Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
· 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = 1 lite year
· 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
· Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon
· 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
· Basic unit of laryngitis – 1 hoarsepower
· 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
· 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
· 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen
· 8 nickles = 2 paradigms
Obscure conversions...
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Obscure conversions...
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Shamefully, I admit to laughing out loud at a couple of those.
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"Shamefully, I admit to laughing out loud at a couple of those." +1
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Me likey !
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Me likey !
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Re: Obscure conversions...
+1, But more than a couple..... "Eskimo Pi..Bwaahahahaaaa"Griff wrote:Shamefully, I admit to laughing out loud at a couple of those.
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Re: Obscure conversions...
Got quite the kick out of those!
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I'm still waiting for the Halloween Crayola collection:
Gan Green
Puking Pale
Bilge Brown
Melanoma Yellow
Infra Dead
Ultra Violent
and
Burnt Hombre
Gan Green
Puking Pale
Bilge Brown
Melanoma Yellow
Infra Dead
Ultra Violent
and
Burnt Hombre
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Re: Obscure conversions...
Good stuff!
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