Moogie
03-08-2003, 11:11 AM
This recession is terrible. People have way too much time on their hands. The proof of this is in the following bit of nonsense that would give Spider Robinson, himself, a good case of the collywobbles
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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 is less filling---1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone---1 Rod Sterling
Half a large intestine---1 semicolon
1000 aches---1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis---1 horsepower
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
365.25 days--- 1 unicycle
2000 mocking birds---Two kilomockingbirds (work on it ..)
10 cards--- 1 decacards
1000 grams 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 nickles-- 2 paradigms
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital---1 I.V. League
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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 is less filling---1 lite year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone---1 Rod Sterling
Half a large intestine---1 semicolon
1000 aches---1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis---1 horsepower
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
365.25 days--- 1 unicycle
2000 mocking birds---Two kilomockingbirds (work on it ..)
10 cards--- 1 decacards
1000 grams 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 nickles-- 2 paradigms
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital---1 I.V. League