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    1. [NJ-Memories] Fw: Conversions-some are hysterical
    2. franor
    3. > Dot and Doris, > Reading all the jokes ect. this morning I am free again, the room is mine, > all mine. Well till Races, baseball ect. Come Monday I may pack my lunch > and stay in here. I can look out the window now so nice. > Norma > > 100 Senators: Not 1 decision <<Isn't that the truth<< > > Dot this was neat and scary. The one with the girl was beautiful. > http://www.pbase.com/gallery?gallery_id=385728 > > Doris<< That's all I can remember about the horse-opera > > horses<< > Remember when they came out with the Plastic horses of all these guys? My > son had a collection, bet they're worth money now. > Saw the lunch boxes last night on HGTV, and one went for $10,000. Who > knew we just throwed them away when the school started serving lunches. Norma > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dorothy Borne <dotbnj@earthlink.net> > To: Vicki & Mike <vickind@msn.com>; Norma NJ <franor@atmc.net>; Kim Hendrix > <k_hendrix68@hotmail.com>; Jack Allen NJ <tippy@eticomm.net>; Doreen Crocker > <Eldriverd@aol.com>; Diesel NJ <DieselDis@aol.com>; Henry Sefchik > <hsefchik@comcast.net> > Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 8:12 PM > Subject: Conversions-some are hysterical > > > > For those who thought the hardest part of Physics 101 was the constant > > conversion from feet and inches to the metric system, including all its > > Newtons, Joules, and Watts, here > > are some other useful conversions: > > > > 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 > > > > 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 Serling > > > > Half of a large intestine: > > 1 semicolon > > > > 1000 pains > > 1 kiloahurtz > > > > Basic unit of laryngitis: > > 1 hoarsepower > > > > Shortest distance between two jokes: > > A straight line > > > > 454 graham crackers: > > 1 pound cake > > > > 1 million microphones: > > 1 megaphone > > > > 1 million bicycles: > > 2 megacycles > > > > 2000 mockingbirds: > > two kilomockingbirds > > > > 10 cards: > > 1 decacards > > > > 1 kilogram of falling figs: > > 1 Fig Newton > > > > 1000 milliliters 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 > > > > 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale > > University Hospital: > > 1 I.V. League > > > > 100 Senators: > > Not 1 decision > > > > ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo > > by > > ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo > > > > >

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