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Physics 101

Started by Tillaway, November 03, 2002, 08:21:30 PM

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Tillaway

Subject: Physics 101


For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was
the constant conversion from feet and inches to the metric
system, including all its Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here
are some other useful conversions:

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 pains
1 kiloahurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis:
1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line

454 graham crackers:
1 pound cake

1 million microphones:
1 megaphone

1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds:
two kilomockingbirds

10 cards:
1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton

1000 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

8 nickels:
2 paradigms

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

100 Senators:
Not 1 decision
Making Tillamook Bay safe for bait; one salmon at a time.

Frank_Pender

It was sure worth the last line, the punch line. 8)
Frank Pender

DanG

I beg to differ!  Just as soon as they're done whacking each other on the back for all the decisions they haven't made, they'll decide to go on vacation. ???
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

ADfields

I for one like in best when thay do NOTHING!   Of the stuff thay HAVE done not one bit of it should have been done in the first place.   If thay cant (or wont) do things that need done then I am all for them keeping all tyed up and feeling important doing NOTHING at all, gridlock. ;D
Andy

Fla._Deadheader

DanG. I thought it was about some new "relief" medication.
    ::)
AAHHHH, the last line is in that category.  ;) ;D
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Tom

I'm still trylng to figure out mm's and now all this :-/.  Are Senators supposed to be doing something? :)

woodman

Not the ones from your state Tom



     Im from Mass.   Ted K.    or drink drive and swim
Jim Cripanuk

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