I recall a Poul Anderson passage, possibly in "The Avatar":
"Tonight we are going to get boiled as an owl, and high as a kite."
"I refer, of course, to the International Standard Owl after it has consumed 1 liter of 100 proof ethanol, and the International Standard Kite, flown in a 1 gravity field at STP."
(Not an exact quote.)
(STP = Standard Temperature and Pressure, a temperature of 273.15 K (0 °C, 32 °F) and an absolute pressure of exactly 1 atm (101.325 kPa).)
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That strongman stick at the carnival, the one that challenges you to ring the bell for a prize.
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The "This High" bar at the carnival ride.
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Use your pinkie or your wiener as long as you never use metric.
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Smidgen
Scotche
Tad
Iota
Speck
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Dash
Pinch
Sprinkling
Glug
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Avoirdupois
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Cider House Ruler
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1/12th of a foot is a big toe.
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Rule of Thumb
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When you give a man an inch, he'll think he's a ruler.
My absolute favorite unit is the millihelen: the beauty required to launch one ship.
Degree of nomenclature is measured in units of inverse-America-horses.
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #dsa
9: #PhotoMonday
8: #SilentSunday
7: #Fotomontag
6: #MonochromeMonday
5: #mastobada
4: #gerden
3: #schnee
2: #altunitsofmeasurements
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Coy...don't answer the phone Uddn'uddn
Also; Uddn'uddn is the measure of how drunk a Shriner is. Example: That Coy is two uddn'uddns to the wind.
1 deciputin = the manipulation of one foreign politician for a period of ten years
1 microdonny = 1 lumen of facially reflected orange light per cm of palm width for an average human
I always quite liked
attoparsecs per microfortnight
since it's roughly equivalent to
inches per second.
:-)
1 Jazz = 13 changes of time signature per five minute improvisation.
