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FUN AND HUMOR AT HAL SINCE 1974:

  • Do you have "The Knack?"  Listen and find out - THE KNACK (wav file)
     
  • To the optimist, the glass is half full.
    To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
    To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
     
  • Unit conversions NOT found in the HAL Converter program above:
    - ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = eskimo pi
    - 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = won ton
    - 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
    - time between slipping on a peal and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
    - time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = knot-furlong
    - half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
    - 1000 aches = 1 kilohurtz
    - basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
    - 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
    - 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
    - 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
    - 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
    - 10 cards = 1 decacards
    - 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig newton
    - 1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
    - 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
    - 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
    - 10 rations = 1 decoration
    - 100 rations = 1 C-ration
    - 2 monograms = 1 diagram
    - 8 nickels = 2 paradigms

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