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Mondya morning definitions for engineers
Wild Turkey
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1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton
10 rations:
1 decoration
100 rations:
1 C-ration
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:
Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup:
Won ton
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks:
1 literhosen
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
1 millionth of a fish:
1 microfiche
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
1 trillion pins:
1 terrapin
453.6 graham crackers:
1 pound cake
1 million microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:
Two kilomockingbirds
10 cards:
1 decacards
Wild Turkey"if your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"
1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton
10 rations:
1 decoration
100 rations:
1 C-ration
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:
Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup:
Won ton
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks:
1 literhosen
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
1 millionth of a fish:
1 microfiche
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
1 trillion pins:
1 terrapin
453.6 graham crackers:
1 pound cake
1 million microphones:
1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:
Two kilomockingbirds
10 cards:
1 decacards
Wild Turkey"if your only tool is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail"