Unit conversion for engineers, scientists, and strange thinkers

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Shitzu puppy named Latte

I hope these UNIT CONVERSIONS, are useful and fun for you. They are in scientific language and therefore international in scope.

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  1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter as a reflection of 3.141592653589793 = 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 one evangelist carries with God = 1 Billygram
  6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
  7. 16.5 feet in the Twilght Zone = 1 Rod Serling
  8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
  9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
  10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
  11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
  12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
  13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
  14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
  15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
  16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
  17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
  18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
  19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
  20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
  21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
  22. 10 rations = 1 decoration
  23. 100 rations = 1 c-ration
  24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
  25. 4 nickles = 2 paradigms
  26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
  27. More than a million Latin Americans, in George W's language = Brazilian
  28. FINAL ONE: 18 ounces of tiny Shitzu puppy named Latte = Cotton Pickin' Dog!