Calvin And Hobbes

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

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The metric system made easy...

10^12 dactyls = 1 teradactyl
10^18 stentials = 1 exastential
10^21 piccolos = 1 gigolo
10^18 minations = 1 examination
10^15 coats = 1 petacoat
10^12 bulls = 1 terabull
10^12 microphones = 1 megaphone
10^12 pins = 1 terrapin
10^9 lows = 1 gigalow
10^9 antics = 1 gigantic
10^9 questions = 1 gigawhats
10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles
10^6 airs = 1 millionaire
2^10^3 millinaries = 4 seminaries
2x10^3 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbird
10 cards = 1 decacard
10 decor = 1 hector
10 dence = 1 decadence
10 halls with boughs of holly = decahalls with...
10 rations = 1 decoration
3-1/3 tridents = 1 decade
1 centipede/second = 1 velocipede
1/2 Soviet press agency = 1 demitasse
10^-1 mate = 1 decimate
10^-2 mentals = 1 centimental
10^-5 dollars = 1 Millicent
10^-6 fish = 1 microfiche
10^-6 scopes = 1 microscope
10^-9 goats = 1 nanogoat
10^-12 boos = 1 picoboo
10^-15 fatales = 1 femtofatale
10^-15 bismol = 1 fepto bismol
10^-18 boys = 1 atto boy

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