# Millihelen
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millihelen/556610
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 9, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millihelen/556610 "2010-10-09T15:44:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millihelen/556610/1 "2010-10-09T15:44:45Z")
The amount of beauty needed to launch one ship.
Obscure Engineering Conversion Factors
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 = 1bananosecond
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. 365.25 days of drinking low calorie beer = 1 Lite year
8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
9. Half a large intestine = 1 semicolon
10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
11. Basic unit of laryngitis - 1 hoarsepower
12. Shortest distance between two jokes - a straight line
13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
15. 1 million bicycles = 1 megacycle
16. 365 bicycles = 1 unicycle
17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
18. 10 cards = 1 decacard
19. 52 cards = 1 deckacard
20. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
21. 1000 ccs of wet socks = 1 literhosen
22. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
23. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
24. 10 rations = 1 decaration
25. 100 rations = 1 C-Ration
26. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
27. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
28. 5 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League
Got any?
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millihelen/556610/2 "2010-10-09T15:59:46Z")
**Zeldar** , we prefer that you write your own OPs, rather than just cutting and pasting widely circulated emails.
That said, I’ll let this thread sink or swim on its own merits.
**twickster** , MPSIMS moderator
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millihelen/556610/3 "2010-10-09T16:02:50Z")
> [@twickster](#):
>
> **Zeldar** , we prefer that you write your own OPs, rather than just cutting and pasting widely circulated emails.
>
> That said, I’ll let this thread sink or swim on its own merits.
>
> **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator
Just close it.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/millihelen/556610/4 "2010-10-09T16:05:55Z")
As you wish.