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* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s go-to comparison for crazy behavior is none other than [[Gary Busey]].
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s go-to comparison for crazy behavior is none other than [[Gary Busey]].
* The [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] page on this very wiki measures the distance to the nearest star in terms of ''U.S. National Debts'' worth of gasoline that it would take to drive there.
* The [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] page on this very wiki measures the distance to the nearest star in terms of ''U.S. National Debts'' worth of gasoline that it would take to drive there.
* An [http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Snapes_on_an_Astral_Plane epic HP fanwar] provided a unit of measure for insanity, thanks to one Lady Darkness insisting on being married to Snape on an astral plane: "One Ladark (...) is defined as the amount of batshittery necessary to believe a fictional character originating within the last 20 years is real and speaks to you. Most wanks can be measured in milliLadarks. This one hits about three."
* An [https://web.archive.org/web/20121201091245/http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Snapes_on_an_Astral_Plane epic HP fanwar] provided a unit of measure for insanity, thanks to one Lady Darkness insisting on being married to Snape on an astral plane: "One Ladark (...) is defined as the amount of batshittery necessary to believe a fictional character originating within the last 20 years is real and speaks to you. Most wanks can be measured in milliLadarks. This one hits about three."
* Certain fans on the internet have made the [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Henderson_Scale_of_Plot_Derailment Henderson], a unit of [[Off the Rails|plot derailment]], particularly of [[Tabletop Games|tabletop RPGs]]. It's creation was inspired the story of [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_Henderson Old Man Henderson], the man who "won" [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]] (which is practically impossible). Henderson was a highly eccentric (and slightly psychotic) [[Player Character]] devised to get back at a particularly agitating GM in the [[Crazy Awesome|most imaginable ways possible]]. His exploits include: burning a Shoggoth, stealing a yacht from a Hastur cult, dropping said yacht on a Cthulhu cult's penthouse (and starting a cultist gang war), ''The'' tanker truck incident, and "Hell on Ice". Henderson's exploits included a surprising number of counts of arson, most accidental, and accidentally killing a lot of people, including the every other player's characters at least once, and incidentally, everybody who could link Henderson to a crime.
* Certain fans on the internet have made the [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Henderson_Scale_of_Plot_Derailment Henderson], a unit of [[Off the Rails|plot derailment]], particularly of [[Tabletop Games|tabletop RPGs]]. It's creation was inspired the story of [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_Henderson Old Man Henderson], the man who "won" [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]] (which is practically impossible). Henderson was a highly eccentric (and slightly psychotic) [[Player Character]] devised to get back at a particularly agitating GM in the [[Crazy Awesome|most imaginable ways possible]]. His exploits include: burning a Shoggoth, stealing a yacht from a Hastur cult, dropping said yacht on a Cthulhu cult's penthouse (and starting a cultist gang war), ''The'' tanker truck incident, and "Hell on Ice". Henderson's exploits included a surprising number of counts of arson, most accidental, and accidentally killing a lot of people, including the every other player's characters at least once, and incidentally, everybody who could link Henderson to a crime.
* ''The Daily WTF'' community now has an unit for difficulty of refund - [http://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/23516/blakeyrat-has-to-send-a-letter-to-a-bank-a-tweet-story/45 Telstra], after "Australia's largest telco" evidently plagued with Conquest’s Third Law compatible corporate bureaucracy, dealing with which was described in ''series of'' [[After Action Report]]s of one member, ending in "[http://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/22975/telstra-the-inescapable-whirlpool-of-crushing-despair Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair]".
* ''The Daily WTF'' community now has an unit for difficulty of refund - [http://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/23516/blakeyrat-has-to-send-a-letter-to-a-bank-a-tweet-story/45 Telstra], after "Australia's largest telco" evidently plagued with Conquest’s Third Law compatible corporate bureaucracy, dealing with which was described in ''series of'' [[After Action Report]]s of one member, ending in "[http://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/22975/telstra-the-inescapable-whirlpool-of-crushing-despair Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair]".
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