Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Overheard... 

A contributor* sent these to me.


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

2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope

4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

7. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

8. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

9. 52 cards = 1 decacards

10. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms

11. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League

12. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision


(* the polite way of saying I fricking forgot from whence they came.)