# Abbreviations or suffixes for linear measurements

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**Created:** [February 25, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abbreviations-or-suffixes-for-linear-measurements/998053 "2024-02-25T05:26:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abbreviations-or-suffixes-for-linear-measurements/998053/7 "2024-02-25T17:10:50Z")

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

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> Mass: 25.375 smithereens equal 1 flinder
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> 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
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> Area: Seventeen all over Hell’s Half Acres equals 1 way the fuck and beyond.
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> Time: 5 million waiting here with my thumb up my ass equals one Jump Jesus. 20 Jump Jesuses equal one Hell freezes over
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> 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](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-smithereens/278999/36)

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