And now, from our department of changeovers and transformations, here is:

Subject: Metric Conversions
Source: Courtesy of Bill Mullica




2 sick houseplants = 1 paraphernalia

10^12 Microphones = 1 Megaphone

10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles

500 millinaries = 1 seminary

2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards

1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn

10^-6 fish = 1 microfiche

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

10^12 pins = 1 terrapin

10^21 picolos = 1 gigolo

10 rations = 1 decoration

100 rations = 1 C-ration

10 millipedes = 1 centipede

31/3 tridents = 1 decadent

5 holocausts = 1 Pentacost

10 monologs = 5 dialogues

5 dialogues = 1 decalogue

2 monograms = 1 diagram

8 nickles = 2 paradigms

2 snake eyes = 1 paradise

2 wharves = 1 paradox