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{{quote|"Rand & McNally will have to redraw their maps."}}
* These kind of measurements come up on ''[[QI]]'' from time to time. Apparently the UK purchases enough wrapping paper for the Christmas season every year to gift-wrap the island of Guernsey.
* One episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' had Stephen rating Nazis on a scale of 1 to 10 Hitlers. [[Adolf Hitler]] himself got only 9 Hitlers because "[[Even Evil Has Standards|nobody gets 10 Hitlers."]]
 
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''Advanced'' ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', 1st Edition, used the gold piece as a unit of weight. Your carrying capacity, the lifting power of a ''telekinesis'' spell, the load limit of ''Tenser's floating disc'', etc. -- all these were given in units of gold pieces rather than pounds. (At the time, 1 gold piece weighed 1/10 of a pound, so converting between pounds and gold pieces was rather easy, although it did make for some ridiculously heavy coins. When 2nd Edition came out, the weight of 1 gold piece changed to 1/50 of a pound and the notion of listing weight in g.p. was abandoned.)
 
 
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* ''[[Katamari Damacy]]'' uses this form of measurement to illustrate the size of your katamaris.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' tends to use Hiroshimas to quantify the yields on starship [[Magnetic Weapons|mass accelerators]], both in-game and in the Codex. The above quote is a gunnery captain chewing out a pair of recruits about just how powerful the gun really ''is'', to get them to "check [their] damn targets" before firing. Also, in ''[[Mass Effect 1]]'', Admiral Hackett will use it to describe the size of a tactical nuke attached to a ''recon probe'' launched during the First Contact War.
* Grobnar of ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' starts using his team matesteammates as a unit of measurement.
{{quote|'''Grobnar:''' No one really knows how big the Wendersnaven are. They could be thousands of Khelgars high!
'''Khelgar Ironfist:''' What did I say 'bout usin' me as a unit of measurement?!
'''Grobnar:''' Er, right, several Neeshkas high. }}
* In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', when Dimentio first brings the heroes to Dimension D, He believes that his power has increased by 256 times, {{spoiler|though it actually increases everyoneseveryone's power by that amount}} and he claims that he could obliterate the heroes with the amount of power it would take to lift an eyebrow.
 
 
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* 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 [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'sIts creation was inspired by the story of [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Old_Man_Henderson Old Man Henderson], the man who "won" ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|Call of Cthulhu]]'' (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 includeincluded: 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 thealmost every other player's characters at least once, and incidentally, everybody who could link Henderson to a crime.
* ''The Daily WTF'' community now has ana 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 People's Cube'' team came up with units for Greenhouse Gas Emission/Carbon Credits: Cow Fart Unit and Kyoto (1 billion CFU) in their (satirical, of course) article ''[http://thepeoplescube.com/current-truth/volcano-releases-one-trillion-cow-farts-into-atmosphere-t1950.html Volcano Releases One Trillion Cow Farts Into Atmosphere]'' (that's one thousand Kyotos).
 
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