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[Haspen]

Hmm, Kelvin's, because that Celsius with nicer zero. Metric is generally a nice thing, what with base ten.

What I like to measure? Obviously it's CENSORED

[Stone Wera]

I don't really have a favorite, but my least favorite is the gram family, milli through kilo. It's too small for me.

[Angel Of Death]

What I like to measure? Obviously it's CENSORED

A strangers face on television?

[RedWarrior0]

Favorite mass unit: 9.0 x 10¹⁶ Joules. Except that much of the time in school, I don't use scientific notation.

[Hubris Incalculable]

Favorite: Tesla. Named after my favorite scientist.

What I like to measure: the distances between my facial features

Err... does what I like to measure have to be in the same units as my favorite measurement?

[JoshuaFH]

What about the coulomb? I can't believe I forgot about it. It's one farad, charged to one volt, equal to 6.24150965(16)×10^18 electrons.

[RedWarrior0]

Note: to piss off teachers, use completely badly-chosen units, and get a calculator accurate to that many digits (or just put random shit after about nine digits). So, for instance, use electron masses in gravity problems and light years per nanosecond for velocities in your ordinary kinematics. Alternatively, use imperial and metric units. Take power, for example. Mass times the square of the distance, divided by the cube of the time. Use poundmasses, kilos, outside diameters of your irises, seconds of our time as observed by someone moving .75c relative to us, US Civil War lengths, and revolution periods of an object orbiting the earth at some arbitrary height.

Basically, find two events and a measure between them, and use that as a unit. 

[Starver]

That's a cue for...

Spoiler: http://xkcd.com/687/ (click to show/hide)

(Alt Text: Or the pressure at the Earth's core will rise slightly.)

[Siquo]

What about the coulomb? I can't believe I forgot about it. It's one farad, charged to one volt, equal to 6.24150965(16)×10^18 electrons.

Oh yeah, the Farad. It always makes me think of bicycles. Why can't we just call it Faraday? Or is three syllables a bit too much? Careful now, if you really want a unit to be named after you, make sure your name does not exceed 2 syllables! *check* Damn, there already is a Faraday. Ok, having multiple units named after you is just showing off.

This guy has got:
Faraday, Farad, Daraf (yeah), Abfarad and Statfarad. And that's just units.
There's also Faraday's law of induction, Faraday effect, Faraday cage, Faraday constant, Faraday cup, Faraday's laws of electrolysis, Faraday paradox, Faraday rotator, Faraday-efficiency effect, Faraday wave, and the Faraday wheel.

Show-off.

[Angel Of Death]

What about the coulomb? I can't believe I forgot about it. It's one farad, charged to one volt, equal to 6.24150965(16)×10^18 electrons.

Faraday?

It's Faraday!
Faraday!
Gotta get down on Faraday!

(sorry, I couldn't resist.)

[Siquo]

HE EVEN HAS SONGS (albeit the worst in the world), not too mention a whole day of the week. Does it ever end?

Edit: Oh yeah, and in Germany, they named bicycles after him.
Also streets everywhere in the world, a park in London, a station in Antarctica and numerous other landmarks. And his picture on the 20 quid note. Psh.

[Darvi]

Edit: Oh yeah, and in Germany, they named bicycles after him.

But they never get his bloody name right.

[ed boy]

I recently found this image, which I rather like.

[Siquo]

Nice image!
Hmmm, I miss the Dutch Ell (el), but it's about the same as the cubit, although the exact length differs per city or region.
Not to mention the palm, taille, streep or duim and the roede.

*wikis a bit* Damn we had a lot of weird stuff to measure with. Thank Napoleon we got rid of all that.

I also liked the "if you're not with us, you're against us" map:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Duke 2.0]

 It appears that highway signs grant you a wonderful striped pattern.