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Thought I'd pass these along.

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? = 1bananosecond

5. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour? = Knot furlong

6. One 6.5 feet in the Twilight Zone? = 1 Rod Serling

7. Half of a large intestine? = 1 semicolon

8. 1,000,000 aches? = 1 megahurtz

9. Basic unit of laryngitis? = 1 hoarsepower

10. Shortest distance between two jokes? = A straight line

11. 453.6 graham crackers? = 1 pound cake

12. 1 million-million microphones? = 1 megaphone

13. 1 million bicycles? = 2 megacycles

14. 365.25 days? = 1 unicycle

15. 2000 mockingbirds? = 2 kilomockingbirds

16. 10 cards? = 1 decacards

17. 1 kilogram of falling figs? = 1 Fig Newton

18. 1000 milliliters of wet socks? = 1 literhosen

19. 1 millionth of a fish? = 1 microfiche

20. 1 trillion pins? = 1 terrapin

21. 10 rations? = 1 decoration

22. 100 rations? = 1 C-ration

23. 2 monograms? = 1 diagram

24. 8 nickels? = 2 paradigms

25. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital? = 1 IV League
 

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If you read Asimov's "Realm of Measure" it will help with some of the less used measurements.

use * for to the power of
10*-9 goat=nanogoat
10*-18 Boy=attoboy
10*12 male cattle=terra bull
10*24 of anything=that's a Yotta stuff
10*15 Peter=Peta Peter
<font color="red"> 10 cough drops </font> = <font color="green"> deka Halls </font>
OK that's enough for me
 

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