Gremmie

Unusual measurements
1 decacards = 52 cards

2 kilomockingbirds = 2000 mockingbirds

1 megaphone = 1 million microphones

1 hoarsepower = Basic unit of laryngitis

1 kilohurtz = 1000 aches

1 semicolon = half a large intestine

1 bananosecond = time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement

Won Ton = 1000 kilograms of Chinese Soup

Eskimo Pi = ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter

Lite Year = time taken to drink a low cal beer

Straight Line = Shortest distance between 2 punch lines

Micro Soft= Term used by midgets before the invention of Viagra

immichaelcaine

iv U da sheds like me does dis maywel work 4 U me tooks it from a uzeful internets callin teh wikpaedophile

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ed.2C_outhouse:

Barn, shed, outhouse:

A barn is a serious unit of area used by nuclear physicists to quantify the scattering cross-section of very small particles, such as atomic nuclei.[9] It is one of the very few units which are accepted to be used with SI units, and one of the most recent units to have been established (cf. the knot and the bar, other non-SI units acceptable in limited circumstances).[10] One barn is equal to 1.0×10−28 m2. The name derives from the folk expression "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn", used by particle accelerator physicists to refer to the difficulty of achieving a collision between particles. The outhouse (1.0×10−6 barns) and shed (1.0×10−24 barns) are derived by analogy.

Novocastrian

Mega = 10^6, micro = 10^-6. Thus a Megawhatever is a 10^12 microwhatevers. Not a million.

All the rest were, it goes without saying, completely hilarious.

Zoe Bell

my students never got the joke of 100 whales being a killer whale

I guess i was one of those sad teachers that everyone tried to avoid

dave2003

Long ago, when I first started studying engineering, we had some bizarre units-such as slugs and poundals. Funny, I often have to go back to these and other old imperial units as I sometimes feel lost or uncertain using the S.I. system.

Novocastrian

It's probably the way you told it.

You meant 1000.

Zoe Bell

oh f@#k!!

too much alcohol , or maybe too little , I forget how it works with me !

Still at least I'm honest enough not to go back and edit the damn post