Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of them.
Algebraical symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.
Geometry teaches us to bisex angles.
A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending.
A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle.
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 light year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
1/2 large intestine = 1 semicolon
1000 aches = 1 megahertz
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 = 1
bananosecond
1/2 bath = 1 demijohn
5 holocausts = 1 pentecost
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
500 millionaries = 1 seminary
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
1000 grams of wet socks = 1 Liter Hosen
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 dialogues
5 dialogues = 1 decalogue
2 monograms = 1 diagram
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 wharves = 1 paradox
100 Senators = not 1 decision
Silly Metric Conversions
