Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site decwrl.DEC.COM Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-latour!kkleiner From: kkleiner@dec-latour.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: conversions & equivalents Message-ID: <606@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 15:50:55 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.606 Posted: Tue Jan 21 15:50:55 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jan-86 20:58:20 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 41 The recent postings about milliHelens et. al. spurred me to post this, although I suspect it originally came to me from off the net via some tortuous forwarding chain. But we all know about how the net "re-cycles" periodically, which means that 1986 is the year we can look forward to repostings of all the "Beat It" satires! 10**12 microphones = 1 megaphone 10**12 pins = 1 terrapin 10**-12 boulevards = 1 pico-boulevard 10**21 piccolos = 1 gigolo 10 rations = 1 decoration 10 millipedes = 1 centipede 1 centipede/second = 1 velocipede 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent 5 holocausts = 1 Pentecost 10**6 bicycles = 2 megacycles 10**9 micrometers = 1 kilometer = 200 pentameters 10 monologues = 5 dialogues = 1 decalogue 10^-3 ink machines = 1 millink machine 10^12 bulls = 1 terabull 10^-18 boys = atto boy 10 dence = decadence 10 decor = 1 hector 10^-3 on = 1 million 2 homosexuals = 1 bisexual? 10^-12 boos = 1 picoboo 10^-9 goats = 1 nanogoat 2 x 10^3 mockingbirds = 2 kilo mockingbird 10^-9 Nanettes = 1 nanoNanette 10 halls with boughs of holly = decahalls with etc. 10**-5 dollars = 1 Millicent 1 milli-Helen = the amount of beauty required to launch 1 ship. nano-nano = a prefix designating 10**18 1000 Kowalskis = 1 Kilokowalski ("Killer" Kowalski was a well-known professional "wrestler" about 20 years ago.) 2*10**3 millinaries = 4 seminaries = 1 binary (The enlightenment generated by a "seminary" is measured in "luminaries".)