Oh hush, if I want anything out of you I will squeeze it out...... (that is what one of my wee grandchildren told his little brother once).... J.<>< -----Original Message----- From: charles r. carter [mailto:cartercr@rma.edu] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 6:25 PM To: KYNICHOL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KYNICHOL] weekly Phunnie MEASURE for MEASURE, a pun by any other name still..... At 02:51 PM 2/21/00 -0700, you wrote: >Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi >2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University >Hospital: 1 I.V. League >2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton >1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope >Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle >Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong >365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's >less filling: 1 lite year >16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling >Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon >1000 aches: 1 megahurtz >Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram >Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower >Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line >Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond >A Half-Bath: 1 demijohn >453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake >Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a >single step," the first step of a one-mile journey: 1 Milwaukee >1 million microphones: 1 megaphone >1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles >365.25 days: 1 unicycle >2200 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds >10 cards: 1 decacards >1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton >1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen >1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche >1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin >1 million billion picolos: 1 gigolo >10 rations: 1 decoration >100 rations: 1 C-ration >10 millipedes: 1 centipede >3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent >10 monologs: 5 dialogs >5 dialogs: 1 decalog >2 monograms: 1 diagram >8 nickels: 2 paradigms >2 wharves: 1 paradox >100 Senators: Not 1 decision > >