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Engineer's Week Part Deux

Posted By: soot

Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/19/14 03:05 AM

In honor of Engineers Week here are some proposed engineering units of conversion for you to solve. Trickery and puns abound lol

sherlock

= 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?

penguin
Posted By: CCbomber

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/19/14 03:21 AM

1. won ton soup smile
Posted By: Jema

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/19/14 03:50 AM

I missed CCb's. oops
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/19/14 04:19 AM

4. semicolon lol
Posted By: manxman

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/19/14 06:16 AM

9. 1 fig Newton
Posted By: Sondi

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/19/14 06:50 AM

2. 1 bananosecond lol

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Posted By: curly

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/19/14 08:22 AM

10. scale???
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/19/14 10:47 AM

8, Two kilo-mockingbird rotfl

Love these, soot! bravo
Posted By: soot

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/20/14 01:17 AM

Try again on #10 Curly .. it is a play off of the fish think

Thanks UW .. couldn't pass them up this week lol

UW Sondi manXman Michele CCBomber (and Jema with an honorable mention wink) thumbsup

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Posted By: michele rose

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/20/14 02:36 AM

5. One hoarse power snicker
Posted By: manxman

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/20/14 05:14 AM

12. one diagram
Posted By: CCbomber

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/20/14 05:37 AM

10. 1 microfiche
Posted By: Jema

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/20/14 08:53 PM

11. 1 decoration wave
Posted By: manxman

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/20/14 11:25 PM

13. I. V. League
Posted By: soot

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/21/14 02:12 AM

Well done gang .. all spot on thumbsup

...just think if we'd had #9 in the group it would have been a straight flush wink

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Posted By: BobH

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/21/14 02:16 AM

6. pound cake?
Posted By: soot

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/21/14 02:19 AM

Yes it is Bob .. well done bravo

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Posted By: manxman

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/21/14 03:24 AM

3. knot furlong lol
Posted By: BobH

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/21/14 07:05 PM

7. Megacycles (for us Ancient Ones, now called MegaHertz smile )
Posted By: soot

Re: Engineer's Week Part Deux - 02/22/14 01:13 AM

Well done manXman and Bob thumbsup

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