Dubious metrics:

10**21 piccolos          = 1 gigolo
10**18 minations         = 1 examination
10**15 coats             = 1 petacoat
10**12 bulls             = 1 terabull
10**12 microphones       = 1 megaphone
10**12 pins              = 1 terrapin
billions and billions    = 1 Sagan
10**9 lows               = 1 gigalow
10**9 antics             = 1 gigantic
10**9 questions          = 1 gigawhat
10**9 micrometers        = 1 kilometer
                         = 200 pentameters
10**6 bicycles           = 2 megacycles
2*10**3 millinaries      = 4 seminaries
                         = 1 binary
2*10**3 mockingbirds     = 2 kilo mockingbird
1000 Kowalskis           = 1 Kilokowalski 
("Killer" Kowalski was a well-known professional 
wrestler about 20 years ago.)
10 cards                 = 1 decacard
10 decor                 = 1 hector
10 dence                 = 1 decadence
10 halls with boughs of holly = decahalls with etc.
10 millipedes            = 1 centipede
10 monologues            = 5 dialogues
                         = 1 decalogue
10 rations               = 1 decoration
5 holocausts             = 1 Pentecost
3 1/3 tridents           = 1 decadent
2 bulls                  = 1 Pair a bull
2 homosexuals            = 1 bisexual
1 centipede/second       = 1 velocipede
1/2 Soviet press agency  = 1 demitasse
10**-1 mate              = 1 decimate
10**-2 mentals           = 1 centimental
10**-3 ink machines      = 1 millink machine
10**-3 on                = 1 million
10**-5 dollars           = 1 Millicent
10**-6 fish              = 1 microfiche
10**-6 scopes            = 1 microscope
10**-9 goats             = 1 nanogoat
10**-9 Nanettes          = 1 nanoNanette
10**-12 boos             = 1 picoboo
10**-12 boulevards       = 1 pico-boulevard
10**-12 dillies          = 1 picodilly
10**-15 fatales          = 1 femtofatale
10**-15 bismol           = 1 fepto bismol
10**-18 boys             = 1 atto boy
nano-nano                = a prefix designating 10**-18

misrael@scripps.edu                     Mark Israel