New Units of Measurement2,000 pounds of Chinese soup = won ton Aa millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram 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 1,000 aches = 1 kilohurtz Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles 2,000 mockingbirds = Two kilomockingbirds 10 cards = 1 decacards 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig newton 1,000 cubic centimeters of wet socks = 1 literhosen 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin 10 rations = 1 decoration 100 rations = 1 C-ration 2 monograms = 1 diagram 8 nickels = 2 paradigms 100 Senators = not 1 decision 3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV league |