For those of you who haven't yet gone metric, here are some handy conversions:
- 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
- Time between slipping on a peel and hitting the pavement = 1 bananosecond
- Weight an evangelist carries = 1 billigram
- 1,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
- Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mph = 1 knot-furlong
- Basic unit of laryngitis = the hoarsepower
- 1,000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
- 10 rations=1 decoration