Useful Engineering Conversions For
Swine University 

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to
its diameter: Eskimo Pi 

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won
ton 

1 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 Serling 

Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon 

1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz 

Basic unit of laryngitis: 1
hoarsepower 

Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line. (think about it for a
moment) 

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake 

1 million microphones: 1 megaphone


1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles 

2000 mockingbirds: two
kilomockingbirds (work on it....) 

10 cards: 1 decacards 

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig
Newton 

1000 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 

3 statute miles of intravenous
surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital: 1 I.V. League 

100 Senators: Not 1 decision