February 20, 2000 - Important conversions

• Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League
• 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
• 1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope
• 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 million aches: 1 megahurtz
• Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
• Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
• Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond
• 1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
• 365.25 days: 1 unicycle
• 2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
• 10 cards: 1 decacards
• 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
• 1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
• 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
• 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
• 10 rations: 1 decoration
• 2 monograms: 1 diagram
• 8 nickels: 2 paradigms
• 2 wharves: 1 paradox
• 100 senators: Not 1 decision