The Scully Tables of Scientific Conversions

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by The Editors on March 5, 2012

in Humor, Living Life Today



Good news. It seems our good friend and loyal reader, Dennis Scully, has come out from his annual winter hibernation. Dennis has whiled away this year’s Chicago winter by working out the following mathematical and/or scientific challenges:

SCULLY’S SCIENTIFIC CONVERSION TABLES FOR DUMMIES

1. Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi  
2. 2,000 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. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling  
8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon  
9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz  
10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower  
11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line  
12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake  
13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone  
14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles  
15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle  
16. 2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds  
17. 52 cards = 1decacards  
18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton  
19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen  
20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche  
21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin  
22. 10 rations = 1 decoration  
23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration  
24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram  
25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms  
26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League  
27. 100 Senators = Not 1 decision

Dennis is also claiming the creation of this rather clever Pizza Pi cutter:

We’re inclined to think that idea probably came from his beautiful bride, Jeannie, but we’ll humor him for a while anyway.

 

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Shelby White September 17, 2012 at 3:34 PM

Dennis is my kind of genius.

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