Some Lesser-Known Metric Units of Measurement

[Jacob Potts]

"P.S.  "Ooch" is a real unit of measurement.  You may not be familiar with it, since it is one of the lesser-known units in the metric system.  :-)"

Here are some more.  No, these are not original with me, but I thought I should share them with you. :-) 

• 1 millionth of a mouthwash                        = 1 microscope

• Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

• 2,000 pounds of Chinese soup                      = Won ton

• 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 = Knotfurlong

• 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone                    = 1 Rod Serling

• Half of a large intestine                        = 1 semicolon

• 1,000,000 aches                                  = 1 megahurtz

• Basic unit of laryngitis                          = 1 hoarsepower

• Shortest distance between two jokes              = 1 straight line

• 453.6 graham crackers                            = 1 pound cake

• 1 million-million microphones                    = 1 megaphone

• 2 million bicycles                                = 2 megacycles

• 365.25 days                                      = 1 unicycle

• 2000 mockingbirds                                = 2 kilomockingbirds

• 52 cards                                          = 1 decacards

• 1 kilogram of falling figs                        = 1 FigNewton

• 1,000 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

• 4 nickels                                        = 2 paradigms

• 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League

Jacob Potts :-)

[AtomMadStew]

 
i have yet to discover the actual measurement of a "gnats bollock" often reffered to in yorkshire measurements when "not quite there but there abouts" at a guess its thousands of a millimeter or close to an "Ooch"