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Might help some,, and confuse others...

Non-Standard Units of Measurement (Handy Engineering Conversions)

1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
3. 1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope
4. Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle
5. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite year
6. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling
7. Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
8. 1000 aches: 1 megahurts
9. Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
10. Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarse power
11. Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
12. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond
13. 10 cards: 1 decacards
14. 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
15. 1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
16. 1 million microphones: 1 phone
17. 1 trillion microphones: 1 megaphone
18. 1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
19. 500 millinaries: 1 seminary
20. 2000 mockingbirds: 2 kilomockingbirds
21. 1/2 lavatory: 1 demijohn
22. 1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
23. 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
24. 1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
25. 100 rations: 1 C-ration
26. 10 rations: 1 decoration
27. 1 million billion piccolos: 1 gigolo
28. 10 centipede : 1 millipedes <<< fixed,, thanks to longrange1947
29. 3 dents: 1 trident
30. 3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent
31. 2 monograms: 1 diagram
32. 8 nickels: 2 paradigms
33. 105 dollars = 1 Millicent
34. 1012 antellas = 1 tarantella
35. 109 antics = 1 gigantic
36. 100 tics = 1 hectic
37. 10 aides = 1 decade
38. 1000 female sheep = 1 milieu
39. 2 doctors = 1 paradox
40. 100 Senators: Not 1 decision
41. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League
42. 365.25 days: 1 unicycle
43. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong (say it out loud)