These funny conversions came from this web page, located on the Walnut Valley Unified School District web server, and maintained by John L. Park, a teacher at Diamond Bar High School in Walnut, California.

Metric Conversion Chart

10¹² microphones = 1 megaphone

10⁶ bicycles = 2 megacycles

500 millinaries = 1 seminary

2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

10 cards = 1 decacards

1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn

10¯⁶ fish = 1 microfiche

454 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

10¹² pins = 1 terrapin

10²¹ picolos = 10⁹ los = 1 gigolo

10 rations = 1 decoration

100 rations = 1 C-ration

10 millipedes = 1 centipede

3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent

10 monologs = 5 dialogues

5 dialogues = 1 decalogue

2 monograms = 1 diagram

8 nickels = 2 paradigms

2 snake eyes = 1 paradise

2 wharves = 1 paradox

10¯⁶ phones = 1 microphone

10⁶ phones = 1 megaphone

10¯² mental = 1 centimental

10¯¹ mate = 1 decimate

10¹² bulls = 1 terabull

10¯¹² boos = 1 picoboo