I recently read the following in the Tid Bits newsletter and thought it might help those that are still confused about the Metric Measurement System. If your smart Alec spouse even sends you out for a metric monkey wrench come back with one of these identities:

1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

2,000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

10 cards = 1 decacards

1 millionth of a fish = 1 micorfiche

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

10 rations = 1 decoration

10 millipedes = 1 centipede

3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent

2 monograms = 1 diagram

8 nickels = 2 paradigms

2 wharves = 1 paradox

Occasionally 2 NICKELLs = 1 Penny

Never seen 2 NICKELLs = 1 Dime

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