Metric Jokes / Recent Jokes
We Americans (defined as residents of the USA) frequently have problems with metric conversions. In an attempt to clarify the conversion process I now submit some "Useful Metric Conversions."
1 million microphones1 megaphone
2000 mockingbirdstwo kilomockingbirds
10 cards1 decacards
1 millionth of a fish1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers1 pound cake
1 trillion pins1 terrapin
10 rations1 decoration
100 rations1 C-ration
10 millipedes1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents1 decadent
2 monograms1 diagram
8 nickels2 paradigms
2 wharves1 paradox
I hope this proves a useful tool.
"If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles."
- US Senator Jesse Helms
An officer from the weights and measures department was giving a lecture on the metric system. He ended with the words, "From now on, I want you to think millimetres, talk millimetres and dream millimetres -every inch of the way."
Darn those pushy metric system advocates!
Give them 2.54 cm., and they'll take 1.6093 km!