[Al Skierkiewicz]

There was a day when we got bored at work many years ago. While looking at a Murphy's Law poster we decided to come up with ridiculous units for measurement. From the poster, 'furlongs per fortnight' jump to mind. We then decided to make another for measurement for length and came up with the femto (10^-15) parsec, then the kilo microwatt. We also received a piece of equipment that had a warning label on it that stated "Do not connect to a power supply in excess of 115,000 millivolts." Just when we thought we had seen it all, we received a specification in our rental agreement that we had to provide a TV signal from our transmitter to the building RF distribution that "must be no less that 1,000,000 microvolts." While that sounds harmless enough, our transmitter at the time was capable of producing 866,000,000 microvolts.