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Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:
Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup:
Won ton

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

364.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because
it's less filling:
1 lite year

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

Shortest distance between two jokes:
A straight line. (think about it for a moment)

453.6 graham crackers:
1 pound cake

1 million microphones:
1 megaphone

1 million bicycles:
2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds:
Two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)

10 cards:
1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs:
1 Fig Newton

1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks:
1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish:
1 microfiche

1 trillion pins:
1 terrapin

10 rations:
1 decoration

100 rations:
1 C-ration

2 monograms:
1 diagram

8 nickels:
2 paradigms

3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at
Yale University
Hospital:
1 I.V. League

100 Senators:
Not 1 decision
 
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