The following puns come from the Measurement Nightmares Project for 2011 at the Harbor Lights Middle School in Bandon, Oregon. There are plenty more humorous items on that web page.
2,000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds 
 10 cards = 1 decacards 
 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 fig newton 
 1,000 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 
 3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV league 
 A 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 because it's less filling = 1 lite year 
 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling 
 Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon 
 1,000 aches = 1 kilohurtz 
 Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower 
 Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line 
 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
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