Funny Filosopher’s Measurements Measure Up

One of my Funny Filosophers decided to measure things this week.

His report illustrates just how imaginative the English language is, or how frustrating if you are a non-English speaker.

Enjoy. . .

The Funny Filosopher’s Measurements:

1. Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2. Two thousand pounds of Chinese soup = Won Ton

3. One millionth of a mouthwash = one microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = one bananosecond

5. The weight an evangelist carries with God = one billigram

6. The time it takes to sail 220 yards at one nautical mile per hour = knotfurlong

7. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer = one lite year

8. 16.5 feet in The Twilight Zone = one Rod Serling

9. Half a large intestine = one semicolon

10. One million aches = one megahertz

11. One basic unit of laryngitis = one hoarsepower

12. The shortest distance between two jokes = one straight line

13. Two thousand mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

14. One kilogram of falling figs = one Fig Newton

15. One thousands ccs of wet socks = one literhosen

16. Sixteen nickels = one paradigms

17. One million-million microphones = one megaphone

18. One million bicycles = two megacycles

19. Ten cards = one decacards

20. One millionth of a fish = one microfiche

21. One trillion pins = one terrapin

22. Ten rations = one decoration

23. One hundred rations = one C-ration

24. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = one I.V. league.

And if that doesn’t leave you laughing, or at the least a little bit confused about our language, and math, nothing will. But then I was already confused about math.

Have a happy day!