Saturday, April 03, 2010

the world view




How Americans view the world.









How the world views America.



Useful Conversion Units:

2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
1000 aches = 1 megahurts
Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = bananosecond
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong
Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee
1 million microphones = 1 phone
1 trillion microphones = 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
365.25 days = 1 unicycle
the weight of 1 TV evangelist = 1 billigram
10 cards = 1 decacards
2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
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
100 tics = 1 hectic
500 millinaries = 1 seminary
1000 female sheep = 1 milieu
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
10 monologs = 5 dialogs
5 dialogs = 1 decalog
2 monograms = 1 diagram
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 doctors = 1 paradox
2 wharves = 1 paradox
4 lawyers = 2 paralegals
2 untruths = 1 paralyze
33.8 oz of a case of soft drinks = 1 liter of the pack
100 Senators = Not 1 good decision


7 comments:

Mary Christine said...

Thanks for that metric lesson.

Carol said...

I confess that that is my map too, thanks for showing me my biases.

Carverlane said...

Ha ha ha! Very clever...

Kim from sAn Antonio

Garykfc said...

You funny, funny man!

Julianne said...

Ouch from all that thinking this early on a Saturday morning! Yet I will steal the entire thing!

Ed G. said...

I learn so much here.

Blessings and aloha...

Syd said...

LOL on the geography lesson. I liked the Evil Doers especially.