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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
65.25 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 aches - 1 megahurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes - A straight line
454 graham crackers - 1 pound cake
1 million-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 grams 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.
