A paranoia is a bunch of mental blocks
And when Ben Casey meets Kildaire, that makes a paradox

             - From the song One Hippopotami by Allan Sherman


The Table below gives some of the less common metric conversions.

(Or were you looking for the real thing?)


Metric Units Conversions

1012 microphones = 1 megaphone
106 bicycles = 2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacard
10-6 fish = 2 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1012 pins = 1 terrapin
1021 piccolos = 1 gigolo
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
10 monologoues = 5 diaogues
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
2 physicians = 1 paradox
1 parsec = 2 ticks
1015 professors = 1 pedagogue
1 petadog = 1033 attoboys
1012 partners = 1 tera firm
2 terrorize make 1012 corned beef sandwiches
1072 words = yotta-yotta-yotta


If you have any to add, let me know.

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