Many of these conversion factors were posted as recycled humor by Sylvia Wulf on alt.callahans.
1012 microphones = 1 megaphone
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn
1021 picolos = 109 los = 1 gigolo
1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
10 rations = 1 decoration
10-6 peeks = 1 microscope
100 rations … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/metric-conversion-factors/
From: “Sylvia Wulf” [slywlf@optonline.net] via alt.callahans
A scientist found, to his great surprise, that he was lactose intolerant (unable to digest milk sugar). At dinner that night with his two young daughters (age 9 and 4 years), he mentioned that he had found out that he was lactose intolerant and tried to explain to them what that meant.
A couple of months later, he took the kids to a local restaurant for a quick breakfast before shopping. The place was … Read the rest...
http://shaggy-dogs.briancombs.net/lactose-intolerance/