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