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* The Summarize Proust Competition on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' uses a graph gauge to determine who can summarize Creator/MarcelProust's ''A La Recherhe du Temps Perdu'' best. (No one can, so the prize goes to the girl with the [[FanService biggest tits]].)
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* The Summarize Proust Competition on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' uses a graph gauge to determine who can summarize Creator/MarcelProust's ''A La Recherhe Recherche du Temps Perdu'' best. (No one can, so the prize goes to the girl with the [[FanService biggest tits]].)
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* ''Hot Seat'' was a short-lived ABC game show from 1976 (which premiered the same day ''FamilyFeud'' did) in which married couples are attached to lie detectors in answering questions about their married life.
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* ''Hot Seat'' was a short-lived ABC game show from 1976 (which premiered the same day ''FamilyFeud'' did) in which married couples are attached to [[LieDetector lie detectors detectors]] in answering questions about their married life.
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** A variation has a man surrendering to police, claiming he's Atilla the Hun. He's asked to breathe into a Hunalzyer. Nothing happens, so he's proven to be Alexander the Great as he actually breathed into an Alexander the Greatalyzer.
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-->Before reading one of karl's entries, for safety's sake I removed the irony meter from my computer and substituted a pair of [=LEDs=], for a simple binary readout. It didn't work. Somehow the [=LEDs=] transformed into high-powered lasers and were burning holes in things. Really thick things.
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* The id Tech 3-based games (''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'', ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''), as well as engines derived from id Tech 3 (Infinity Ward's IW Engine) feature a Lag-O-Meter, which measures network lag during online play.
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* ''QueenForADay'''s Applause Meter - TropeMaker if not UrExample.
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* The Nostalgia Critic once used a [[HamAndCheese Not-Giving-A-Fuck-O-Meter]]. Apparently topped by Jeremy Irons in ''Dungeons and Dragons.''
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* ''Pinball/ThePartyZone'' has the "Rock-It Meter", which indicates how much fuel the player has collected by how far he will go, from the "Wisconsin State Line", past "The Edge of Reality", and up to "The NEW Frontier!"
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* In Blog/AskKingSombra, Sombra rates Equestria's three Princesses by their bitchiness using [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/1c2fc451d0277b275694249d5174b6f0/tumblr_mo7fpq1OEb1rj4ht7o2_1280.png The Royal]] Bitch-o-meter.
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* The Summarize Proust Competition on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' uses a graph gauge to determine who can summarize MarcelProust's ''A La Recherhe du Temps Perdu'' best. (No one can, so the prize goes to the girl with the [[FanService biggest tits]].)
* TopGear's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7D9cDQqHo cock-o-meter]] measures how much of cock you are judging by the car you're driving. Hammond's BMW M3 [[ReadingsBlewUpTheScale tops it]].
* TopGear's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7D9cDQqHo cock-o-meter]] measures how much of cock you are judging by the car you're driving. Hammond's BMW M3 [[ReadingsBlewUpTheScale tops it]].
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* The Summarize Proust Competition on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' uses a graph gauge to determine who can summarize MarcelProust's Creator/MarcelProust's ''A La Recherhe du Temps Perdu'' best. (No one can, so the prize goes to the girl with the [[FanService biggest tits]].)
*TopGear's ''Series/TopGear''[='=]s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7D9cDQqHo cock-o-meter]] measures how much of cock you are judging by the car you're driving. Hammond's BMW M3 [[ReadingsBlewUpTheScale tops it]].
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** It's a real-life device called a "Bacharach Chemical Sniffer," once used to check for gas leaks and other things. One ''could'', in theory, use it to find evidence of a haunting (vapor trails and such), but con-man Venkman is only trying to look like he knows what he's doing.
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* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', Agent J comments that the Edgar Bug gets a 9 on his "Weird-S#!t-O-Meter." Earlier, Agent K uses a small soil analyzer with a row of multicolored lights to determine what kind of alien he's dealing with. ("Green" apparently means "Bug.")
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* During the "Farley Claymore" mode in ''Pinball/TheShadow'', a "Hit-O-Meter" appears; making key shots results in Farley getting smacked and the meter getting emptied.
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* ''Pinball/ScaredStiff'' is named after the "Stiff-O-Meter", which has ten levels from "Hair Raising" and "Pulse Pounding" up to "Heart Stopping" and [[TitleDrop "Scared Stiff"]].
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* ''Pinball/FishTales'' has "Stretch The Truth", a gauge which measures how big the current catch really is — from "5X Actual Size" to "Total Lie".
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** ''Discworld/MovingPictures'' has the resograph, a device designed by a wizard named [[PunnyName Riktor]] the Tinkerer to measure changes in the fabric of reality. On the Discworld, said fabric is a lot more flexible thanks to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the power of belief]] and the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality. Riktor also invented the Mouse Counter[[hottip:*:counts every mouse in the building]], the Rev Counter[[hottip:*:as the previous one, but for priests]] and the Swamp Meter[[hottip:*:usage never explained]].
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** ''Discworld/MovingPictures'' has the resograph, a device designed by a wizard named [[PunnyName Riktor]] the Tinkerer to measure changes in the fabric of reality. On the Discworld, said fabric is a lot more flexible thanks to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the power of belief]] and the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality. Riktor also invented the Mouse Counter[[hottip:*:counts Counter[[note]]counts every mouse in the building]], building[[/note]], the Rev Counter[[hottip:*:as Counter[[note]]as the previous one, but for priests]] priests[[/note]] and the Swamp Meter[[hottip:*:usage Meter[[note]]usage never explained]].
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* The ChurchOfHappyology has these. They measure how happy you are, or how many body raisins have [[TheGlomp glomped]] onto your body, or something. Or maybe just how hard you grab the electrodes.
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* The ChurchOfHappyology has these. They measure how happy you are, or how many body raisins have [[TheGlomp glomped]] onto your body, or something. Or maybe just how hard you grab the electrodes.
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* [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally]]'s ''Pinball/DrDude'' has the Dude-O-Meter and the Jackpot-O-Meter.
* [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally]]'s ''Pinball/DrDude'' has the Dude-O-Meter and the Jackpot-O-Meter.
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* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''. When the team goes after the library ghost Egon Spengler has a meter that reads PKE (Psycho Kinetic Energy) valences, which are apparently given off by ghosts. It's the one that has the "arms" go up when the PKE increases.
* The movie ''ThatThingYouDo'' had an applause-o-meter that determined the winner of a band contest.
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* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''. When the team goes after the library ghost Egon Spengler has a meter that reads PKE (Psycho Kinetic Energy) valences, which are apparently given off by ghosts. It's the one that has the "arms" go up when the PKE increases.
increases. When Venkmann goes into Dana's apartment, he brings an odd meter of some sort with a long pole that sucks in air, with a hand-pump. When Dana asks him about it, he only says that it's one of their "little toys."
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* A strange old PC game called "How to be a Complete Bastard" has several meters including a "food-o-meter" and a "wee-o-meter". No need to say what those stand for.
* A strange old PC game called "How to be a Complete Bastard" has several meters including a "food-o-meter" and a "wee-o-meter". No need to say what those stand for.
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** Originally found on [=P3X=]-584 in [[Series/{{Stargate SG-1}} SG-1]], the device was named as such by Cameron Mitchell, leaving Samantha Carter wishing she had thought of it first.
** Assumably the very same device was used in [[Series/StargateAtlantis Atlantis]] when they were monitoring how near to ascension Dr. Rodney [=McKay=] was during the events of 'The Tao of Rodney'.
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** Assumably the very same device was used in[[Series/StargateAtlantis Atlantis]] ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' when they were monitoring how near to ascension Dr. Rodney [=McKay=] was during the events of 'The Tao of Rodney'.
** Assumably the very same device was used in
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** In 1979 inventor Carlisle Dixon patented a system for single people to identify potential friends/lovers in crowds. Each person programs a personal transceiver with musical, literary, and other preferences. When two such transceivers detect each other, the person carrying them is told how compatible they are.
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* During the 1980s, the beginning of the drunk-driving-is-wrong awareness era (thanks to MADD and other organizations), bars would often install breath-alysers as a public service, so that patrons could know "when to say when." The practice was discontinued when people started using the machines to adjudicate who's-the-most-drunk contests.
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* TopGear's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7D9cDQqHo cock-o-meter]] measures how much of cock you are judging by the car you're driving. Hammond's BMW M3 [[ReadingsBlewUpTheScale tops it]].
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* ''Dr. Fad'', a children's game show from the late 1980s which focused on creativity and using scientific knowledge to solve problems, had a round where the contestants brought their inventions (pre-made before the show), and explained and demonstrated the items. The audience reaction was measured with an on-screen meter, with the winner decided by how far to the right the needle went.
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* Wiki/RationalWiki's [[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Irony_meter Irony Meter.]] Irony Meters are often mentioned on Website/{{FSTDT}}, usually in in a ReadingsAreOffTheScale ExplosiveInstrumentation way.
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* Wiki/RationalWiki's [[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Irony_meter Irony Meter.]] Irony Meters are often mentioned on Website/{{FSTDT}}, Website/FundiesSayTheDarndestThings, usually in in a ReadingsAreOffTheScale ExplosiveInstrumentation way.
