Metric-English Conversions

[Gollnick]

For your reference:

1 million million microphones = 1 megaphone
1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
500 millinaries = 1 seminary
2000 mockingbirds = 2 killomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn
1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 grahm crackers = 1 pound cake
1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
1 million billion picolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipededs = 1 centipede
1 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
10 monologs = 5 dialogues
5 dialogues = 1 decalogue
2 monograms = 1 diagram (who said a picture is worth a thousand words?)
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 wharves = 1 paradox

 

[raghorn]

So then would half a bowel = one semicolon?

 

[mwerner]

Very clever!