"P.S. "Ooch" is a real unit of measurement. You may not be familiar with it, since it is one of the lesser-known units in the metric system. :-)"
Here are some more. No, these are not original with me, but I thought I should share them with you. :-)
• 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
• Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
• 2,000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
• 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 = Knotfurlong
• 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
• Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
• 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
• Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
• Shortest distance between two jokes = 1 straight line
• 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
• 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
• 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
• 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
• 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
• 52 cards = 1 decacards
• 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 FigNewton
• 1,000 milliliters 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
• 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
Jacob Potts :-)
Some Lesser-Known Metric Units of Measurement
Re: Some Lesser-Known Metric Units of Measurement
i have yet to discover the actual measurement of a "gnats bollock" often reffered to in yorkshire measurements when "not quite there but there abouts" at a guess its thousands of a millimeter or close to an "Ooch"
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