With today's rapid advance in technology, we thought it important to bring to our readers' attention some new engineering conversions: 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton 1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer: 1 lite-year Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line. (think about it for a moment) 1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower 453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake 1 million microphones: 1 megaphone 10 cards: 1 decacards 1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen 2 monograms: 1 diagram 8 nickels: 2 paradigms 2000 mockingbirds: 2 kilomockingbird