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Engineer's Week Part Deux #940982 02/18/14 10:05 PM 02/18/14 10:05 PM
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama soot OP Puzzled Moderator
soot OP Puzzled Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama	In honor of Engineers Week here are some proposed engineering units of conversion for you to solve. Trickery and puns abound = 1. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup? = 2. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement? 3. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour? = 4. Half of a large intestine? = 5. Basic unit of laryngitis? = 6. 453.6 graham crackers? 7. 1 million bicycles? = 8. 2000 mockingbirds? = 9. 1 kilogram of falling figs? = 10. 1 millionth of a fish? = 11. 10 rations? = 12. 2 monograms? = 13. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital? Last edited by soot; 02/21/14 08:14 PM. Dan ... To learn, read...To know, write...To master, teach...To live, play games & listen to whale music Stay Smart & Stay Safe

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #940984 02/18/14 10:21 PM 02/18/14 10:21 PM
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #940987 02/18/14 10:50 PM 02/18/14 10:50 PM
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Jema Adept Boomer Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 13,701 Virginia	I missed CCb's. Last edited by Jema; 02/18/14 11:49 PM. Reason: CCb beat me Wouldn't that jar your mustard!

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #940991 02/18/14 11:19 PM 02/18/14 11:19 PM
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941004 02/19/14 01:16 AM 02/19/14 01:16 AM
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manxman Sonic Boomer Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 29,109 Unionville	9. 1 fig Newton 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: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941006 02/19/14 01:50 AM 02/19/14 01:50 AM
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941014 02/19/14 03:22 AM 02/19/14 03:22 AM
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941019 02/19/14 05:47 AM 02/19/14 05:47 AM
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Urban Worrier True Blue Boomer Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 21,874 Bucks, England	8, Two kilo-mockingbird Love these, soot! To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941097 02/19/14 08:17 PM 02/19/14 08:17 PM
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama soot OP Puzzled Moderator
soot OP Puzzled Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama	Try again on #10 Curly .. it is a play off of the fish Thanks UW .. couldn't pass them up this week UW Sondi manXman Michele CCBomber (and Jema with an honorable mention ) Dan ... To learn, read...To know, write...To master, teach...To live, play games & listen to whale music Stay Smart & Stay Safe

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941111 02/19/14 09:36 PM 02/19/14 09:36 PM
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941133 02/20/14 12:14 AM 02/20/14 12:14 AM
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manxman Sonic Boomer Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 29,109 Unionville	12. one diagram 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: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941141 02/20/14 12:37 AM 02/20/14 12:37 AM
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941243 02/20/14 03:53 PM 02/20/14 03:53 PM
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Jema Adept Boomer Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 13,701 Virginia	11. 1 decoration Wouldn't that jar your mustard!

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941262 02/20/14 06:25 PM 02/20/14 06:25 PM
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manxman Sonic Boomer Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 29,109 Unionville	13. I. V. League 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: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941274 02/20/14 09:12 PM 02/20/14 09:12 PM
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama soot OP Puzzled Moderator
soot OP Puzzled Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama	Well done gang .. all spot on ...just think if we'd had #9 in the group it would have been a straight flush Dan ... To learn, read...To know, write...To master, teach...To live, play games & listen to whale music Stay Smart & Stay Safe

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941275 02/20/14 09:16 PM 02/20/14 09:16 PM
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941277 02/20/14 09:19 PM 02/20/14 09:19 PM
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama soot OP Puzzled Moderator
soot OP Puzzled Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama	Yes it is Bob .. well done Dan ... To learn, read...To know, write...To master, teach...To live, play games & listen to whale music Stay Smart & Stay Safe

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941289 02/20/14 10:24 PM 02/20/14 10:24 PM
Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 29,109 Unionville manxman Sonic Boomer
manxman Sonic Boomer Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 29,109 Unionville	3. knot furlong 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: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941408 02/21/14 02:05 PM 02/21/14 02:05 PM
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Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux [Re: soot] #941451 02/21/14 08:13 PM 02/21/14 08:13 PM
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama soot OP Puzzled Moderator
soot OP Puzzled Moderator Sonic Boomer Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 37,803 Alabama	Well done manXman and Bob Dan ... To learn, read...To know, write...To master, teach...To live, play games & listen to whale music Stay Smart & Stay Safe

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