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The "sailing content" of this post is found in the very last line....
Dave Kautz
P-15 #1632, Tilly Lucy
Palo Alto, CA
Subject: new common units of measurements
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1
lite
year
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling
0.5 large intestine = 1 semicolon
1,000,000 aches = 1 megahertz
Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1
bananosecond
0.5 bathroom = 1 demijohn
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step", the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee
1 trillion microphones = 1 million phones = 1 megaphone
2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
365.25 days = 1 Unicycle
500 millionaires = 1 seminary
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
52 cards = 1 decacards
The latent energy in 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
1000 grams of wet socks = 1 Liter Hosen
1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
1 million billion piccolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital
= 1 I.V. League
2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won Ton
1/1,000,000 mouthwash = 1 microscope
Speed of a tortoise breaking twice the sound barrier = Mach Turtle
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour =
knot-furlong
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