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Engineers Week #940271
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In honor of Engineers Week (next week), here are some proposed engineering units of conversion for you to solve. Trickery and puns abound lol

sherlock

= 1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter?
= 2. 1 millionth of a mouthwash?
= 3. Weight an evangelist carries with God?
= 4. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone?
= 5. 1,000,000 aches?
= 6. Shortest distance between two jokes?
= 7. 1 million-million microphones?
8. 365.25 days?
= 9. 10 cards?
= 10. 1000 milliliters of wet socks?
= 11. 1 trillion pins?
12. 100 rations?
= 13. 8 nickels?

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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940274
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6.A straight line headscratch wave


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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940275
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1. Eskimo pie


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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940284
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4. Rod Sterling grin wave


Wouldn't that jar your mustard!
Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940286
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First three out of the chute are spot on thumbsup

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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940315
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2. microscope

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5. megahurtz lol

Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940334
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if puns are the go than does litrehosen work for 10?


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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940351
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9. One decacards smile


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Yes it does Flotsam .. you nailed it thumbsup

Right on Michele Rog and CCBomber bravo

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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940561
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11. One tera-pin lol


To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self.
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7. megaphone

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well done UW and Michele thumbsup

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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940765
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11. a terrapin wave


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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940805
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Yes it is manXman .. we double tapped that one given my tardy posting wink

But a "solid" show on your part yes

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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940811
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Didn't notice that UW had already answered it. slapforehead

3. a billigram grin


Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
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rotfl (in theory) I'm the one running the puzzle
but got sidetracked by grandsons pacify
and forgot to check off UW and Michele haha

ps ... Happy Family Day to you and our Canadian Boomers and Happy President's Day to our USA Boomers


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Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940832
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12. c-ration headscratch

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8. a unicycle


Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
Re: Engineers Week [Re: soot] #940978
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woot Well done Michele and manXman

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