Subject: Possible Metric Conversions
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 04:02:52 EST
"Possible Metric Conversions"
Found in a scientist's trash can:
1 million microphones 1 million bicycles 365.25 days 500 millenaries
2000 mockingbirds 10 cards
1/2 lavatory 1 kilogram of falling figs 1000 grams of wet socks 1
millionth of a fish 2000
British Troops in Ireland 453.6 graham crackers 1 trillion pins 1
trillion grams of brown
marijuana 1 million billion piccolos 10 rations 100 rations 10
millipedes 3 1/3 tridents 10
monologues 5 dialogues 2 monograms
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"So, You Think It's Easy to Learn English???"
{Read it out loud.}
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
The soldier decided to desert in the desert.
This was a good time to present the present. (This
last could mean "gift" or "era of time.")
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
The bandage was wound around the wound.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
They sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in my clothes I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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