Abbreviations or suffixes for linear measurements

[chappachula]

for those of you who are ignorant, here is the Straightdope’s official list of conversion factors, for various types of measurements:

Mass: 25.375 smithereens equal 1 flinder

Volume: One shitload equals 25 bushels, the capacity of the John Deere’s MS 1102G; their smallest ground-driven manure spreader. One Hell of a shitload equals 660 bushels, the capacity of the MS 1260, their largest hydraulic-powered manure spreader

Area: Seventeen all over Hell’s Half Acres equals 1 way the fuck and beyond.

Time: 5 million waiting here with my thumb up my ass equals one Jump Jesus. 20 Jump Jesuses equal one Hell freezes over

Indeterminates: One couldn’t care less equals 1 could care less. 40 milliequvalents of could/couldn’t care lesses equals one better than a sharp stick in the eye.

copied from this wonderful thread, two decades ago