12-01-2002, 08:16 PM | #1 |
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Could this be why our language is so difficult for foreigners?
1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter? = Eskimo Pi 2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup? = Won ton 3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash? = 1 microscope 4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement? = 1 bananosecond 5. Weight an evangelist carries with God? = 1 billigram 6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour? = Knotfurlong 7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone? = 1 Rod Serling 8. Half of a large intestine? = 1 semicolon 9. 1,000,000 aches? = 1 megahurtz 10. Basic unit of laryngitis? = 1 hoarsepower 11. Shortest distance between two jokes? = A straight line 12. 453.6 graham crackers? = 1 pound cake 13. 1 million microphones? = 1 megaphone 14. 2 million bicycles? = 2 megacycles 15. 365.25 days? = 1 unicycle 16. 2000 mockingbirds? = 2 kilomockingbirds 17. 10 cards? = 1 decacards 18. 1 kilogram of falling figs? = 1 Fig Newton 19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks? = 1 literhosen.. 20. 1 millionth of a fish? = 1 microfiche 21. 1 trillion pins? = 1 terrapin 22. 10 rations? = 1 decoration 23. 100 rations? = 1 C-ration 24. 2 monograms? = 1 diagram 25. 8 nickels? = 2 paradigms 26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital? = 1 IV League 27. 100 Senators? = Not 1 decision
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12-01-2002, 08:20 PM | #2 | |
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12-01-2002, 08:22 PM | #3 |
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LOL! [img]tongue.gif[/img] fun ones...especially the last.
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12-01-2002, 08:23 PM | #4 |
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I liked them all
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12-01-2002, 09:24 PM | #5 | |
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I agree so totally with Attalus [img]graemlins/1disgust.gif[/img]
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12-01-2002, 09:48 PM | #6 |
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Cute...
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12-01-2002, 10:44 PM | #7 |
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That fraction of time after you've sent an email and realized you shouldn't have sent it should be called an "ohnosecond"
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