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* The [=FreeBSD=] UsefulNotes/{{unix}} based operating system had some problems switching from the 4.x to the 5.x version, forcing them to release a 4.10 and 4.11 "production" versions. They lampshaded it releasing promo material with "4.11, ours goes to eleven" on it.

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* The [=FreeBSD=] UsefulNotes/{{unix}} based Platform/{{UNIX}}-based operating system had some problems switching from the 4.x to the 5.x version, forcing them to release a 4.10 and 4.11 "production" versions. They lampshaded it releasing promo material with "4.11, ours goes to eleven" on it.
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope


* NASCAR racecars, the quintessential "ten" of automotive racing in the USA, rates their cars in the 8-900hp range. The brand new Shelby Mustang's track version takes the horsepower UpToEleven...hundred.

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* NASCAR racecars, the quintessential "ten" of automotive racing in the USA, rates their cars in the 8-900hp range. The brand new Shelby Mustang's track version takes the horsepower UpToEleven...up to eleven...hundred.



* Most guitarists love to have their amplifiers play as loud as possible. For this reason, Fender Musical Instruments ''specifically'' built all their classic "Reverb" Tube-amplifiers with knobs that go from 0 and all the way up to 12! Why? Because someone complained that "UpToEleven isn't loud enough!"

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* Most guitarists love to have their amplifiers play as loud as possible. For this reason, Fender Musical Instruments ''specifically'' built all their classic "Reverb" Tube-amplifiers with knobs that go from 0 and all the way up to 12! Why? Because someone complained that "UpToEleven "up to eleven isn't loud enough!"
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* One of the Wiki/TVTropes forums discusses this in terms of UsefulNotes/{{bodybuilding}}, noting how contestants went from being strongmen who happened to have highly defined muscles (and actually looked pretty good) to freakishly huge guys more obsessed with adding mass than being healthy.

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* One of the Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes forums discusses this in terms of UsefulNotes/{{bodybuilding}}, noting how contestants went from being strongmen who happened to have highly defined muscles (and actually looked pretty good) to freakishly huge guys more obsessed with adding mass than being healthy.
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* The Badwater Ultramarathon: (from ''Sports Illustrated'') Think of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Badwater]] as [[TheSpartanWay five consecutive marathons, only they're uphill]] (from 280 ft. below sea-level and 8,360 ft. above), held inside a blast furnace (the temperature hovers above 115 degrees -- at night) and capable of frying runners' brains [[ThisIsYourIndexOnDrugs like a fistful of peyote]] (hallucinations caused by [[TheInsomniac sleep deprivation]] are [[CrazyAwesome part of the event's charm]]).

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* The Badwater Ultramarathon: (from ''Sports Illustrated'') Think of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Badwater]] as [[TheSpartanWay five consecutive marathons, only they're uphill]] (from 280 ft. below sea-level and 8,360 ft. above), held inside a blast furnace (the temperature hovers above 115 degrees -- at night) and capable of frying runners' brains [[ThisIsYourIndexOnDrugs like a fistful of peyote]] (hallucinations caused by [[TheInsomniac sleep deprivation]] are [[CrazyAwesome [[CrazyIsCool part of the event's charm]]).
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** While not quite as fast as the Veyron, the HTT Plethore LC-1300 "Canadian Supercar" has a 1,300 horsepower engine and is designed as a 3-seater with the driver's seat and steering column in the centre like a Formula 1 car, and two passengers to the rear flanks of the driver.

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** While not quite as fast as the Veyron, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTT_Pl%C3%A9thore HTT Plethore LC-1300 LC-1300]] "Canadian Supercar" has a 1,300 horsepower engine and is designed as a 3-seater with the driver's seat and steering column in the centre like a Formula 1 car, and two passengers to the rear flanks of the driver.
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** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records ''beyond'' eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and eight so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 26 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).

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** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken she took all previous triple-double records ''beyond'' eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as and a junior (a new single-season record), and record of eight so far both as a senior before she goes off junior and as a senior. (The cancellation of the 2020 NCAA basketball tournaments due to the WNBA in 2020. coronavirus pandemic kept her from possibly adding even more.) If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 26 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).
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* OlderThanTelevision Example and possible TropeNamer: the throttle of the gigantic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1 Chesapeake and Ohio M1 locomotive had 11]] settings. Standard American locomotives, regardless of manufacturer, have 9 settings, standard British practice is to use 10 settings. During a 1948 trial run with a reporter from ''Popular Mechanics'' aboard, a C&O engineer expressed his dissatisfaction with a local speed limit of 75 miles per hour (throttle notch 7), noting that he would "sure like to be able to pull it back to eleven!"

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* OlderThanTelevision Example and possible TropeNamer: the throttle of the gigantic [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1 Chesapeake and Ohio M1 locomotive had 11]] settings. Standard American locomotives, regardless of manufacturer, have 9 settings, standard British practice is to use 10 settings. During a 1948 trial run with a reporter from ''Popular Mechanics'' aboard, a C&O engineer expressed his dissatisfaction with a local speed limit of 75 miles per hour (throttle notch 7), noting that he would "sure like to be able to pull it back to eleven!"



* When Huey Long was governor of Louisiana, he ordered that the LSU swimming pool be 53 meters long, instead of the standard 50. It served no functional purpose and complicated swim races since they ended short of the wall, but hey, longest pool.
** Huey Long also had built the Louisiana State Capitol, which still stands as the tallest state capitol in the country and the tallest building in Baton Rouge. Local historians state that the Nebraska state capitol, which was being erected concurrently, was going to exceed the planned height of the Louisiana construction. Governor Long responded by increasing the height of his capital to remain the tallest.

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* When Huey Long UsefulNotes/HueyLong was governor of Louisiana, he ordered that the LSU swimming pool be 53 meters long, instead of the standard 50. It served no functional purpose and complicated swim races since they ended short of the wall, but hey, longest pool.
** Huey Long also had built the Louisiana State Capitol, which still stands as the tallest state capitol in the country and the tallest building in Baton Rouge. Local historians state that the Nebraska state capitol, which was being erected concurrently, was going to exceed the planned height of the Louisiana construction. Governor Long responded by increasing the height of his capital to remain the tallest.



** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records beyond eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and eight so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 26 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).

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** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records beyond ''beyond'' eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and eight so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 26 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).



* One of the Wiki/TVTropes forums discusses this in terms of [[UsefulNotes/{{Bodybuilding}} bodybuilding]], noting how contestants went from being strongmen who happened to have highly defined muscles (and actually looked pretty good) to freakishly huge guys more obsessed with adding mass than being healthy.

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* One of the Wiki/TVTropes forums discusses this in terms of [[UsefulNotes/{{Bodybuilding}} bodybuilding]], UsefulNotes/{{bodybuilding}}, noting how contestants went from being strongmen who happened to have highly defined muscles (and actually looked pretty good) to freakishly huge guys more obsessed with adding mass than being healthy.



** 4.0 [=GHz=]? That's nothing. The FX-9590 shipped with a turbo core frequency of '''5.0 [=GHz=]''' at the time when ~4.5 [=GHz=] was the norm for top-end processors.

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** 4.0 [=GHz=]? That's nothing. The FX-9590 shipped with a turbo core frequency of '''5.0 [=GHz=]''' at the a time when ~4.5 [=GHz=] was the norm for top-end processors.
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** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records beyond eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and seven so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 26 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).

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** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records beyond eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and seven eight so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 26 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).
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One more triple-double for Sabrina.


** Kyle Collinsworth of [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} BYU]], who didn't have a triple-double in either of his first two college seasons... but then had 6 both as a junior in 2014–15 and a senior in 2015–16. No one has challenged it yet on the men's side, and it looked like no one would challenge the total on the women's side. But immediately after Collinsworth graduated...
** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records beyond eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and seven so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 25 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).

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** ** ...Kyle Collinsworth of [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} BYU]], who didn't have a triple-double in either of his first two college seasons... seasons, but then had 6 both as a junior in 2014–15 and a senior in 2015–16. No one has challenged it Collinsworth's record yet on the men's side, and it looked like no one would challenge the total on the women's side. But immediately after Collinsworth he graduated...
** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records beyond eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and seven so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 25 26 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).
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Sabrina update...


** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records up to eleven, and then some. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and six so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 24 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23).

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** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records up to eleven, and then some. beyond eleven. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and six seven so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 24 25 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23).(23). Or the top three on the D-I men's career list (24).
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NCAA Division I triple-double records have been subject to this in recent years.

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* The record for career triple-doubles[[note]]double figures in any three of five positive statistical categories—points, rebounds, assists, blocked shots, steals—in a single game[[/note]] in NCAA Division I UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} has been subject to this in recent years. Before the 2015–16 season, the career record was 6 for men and 7 for women. Then along came...
** Kyle Collinsworth of [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} BYU]], who didn't have a triple-double in either of his first two college seasons... but then had 6 both as a junior in 2014–15 and a senior in 2015–16. No one has challenged it yet on the men's side, and it looked like no one would challenge the total on the women's side. But immediately after Collinsworth graduated...
** ...enter Sabrina Ionescu. During her four seasons at Oregon, she's taken all previous triple-double records up to eleven, and then some. Four as a freshman, six as a sophomore (tying the previous single-season record, which had been the same for both men and women), eight as a junior (a new single-season record), and six so far as a senior before she goes off to the WNBA in 2020. If you're keeping track, that means she broke the previous women's career record midway through her second season and passed Collinsworth in her third. On top of that, Ionescu's 24 triple-doubles are more than the combined total of ''the next three players'' on the D-I women's career list (23).
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** The 16-team WAC featured some very good teams, like BYU and Wyoming, but collapsed due to bad bowl tie-ins (due to the 6 biggest conferences hoarding the best bowl tie-ins for themselves). Splitting an insignificant amount of money 16+ ways was never going to last. A 16-team SEC has a much better chance of surviving due to the fact that they are swimming in money.

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** The 16-team WAC featured some very good teams, like BYU and Wyoming, but collapsed due to bad bowl tie-ins (due to the 6 biggest conferences hoarding the best bowl tie-ins for themselves). Splitting an insignificant amount of money 16+ ways was never going to last. last, especially given that the geography of the 16-team WAC was such that a natural north-south or east-west split was impossible. A 16-team SEC has a much better chance of surviving due to the fact that they are swimming in money.money, which would also help to paper over geographic problems.

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