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** There's a mess of "tun" or "tonnage" measures... of volume, ie: [[wikipedia:tun (unit)|tun]], [[wikipedia:tonnage|tonnage]], [[wikipedia:shipping ton|shipping ton]]. Most pertain to ocean-going cargo ships. Feathers do pointlessly add a huge amount of volume, for any given constant weight. For that matter, the railway [[wikipedia:gross ton mile|gross ton mile]] is the product of total weight (including the weight of lading cars and locomotives) and the distance moved by a train. A ton of feathers, plus the container to hold them all, gets bulky quickly.
* Internet filters rely on this trope. Imagine why Pakistan blocked ''all'' of [[Facebook]] because of just one group.
** The same is true of word filters: written erotica may mention breasts, but blocking all uses of the word blocks out gynaecology, chicken recipes, breast cancer prevention/treatment and other innocent uses. The "[[Scunthorpe Problem]]" nets even more collateral blocking (while the devious perverts just use word-substitution tricks).
** There are also risks of extensive collateral damage if a system like [[Communism|communist]] [[China]]'s [[Great Firewall of China|Great Firewall]] blocks services by IP address. "Uncyclopedia is bad, [[Uncyclopedia|Uncyclopedia Taiwan]] hides behind Cloudflare, therefore Cloudflare and everything hosted through Cloudflare is bad..." is sadly par for the course in some nations.
* Any artistic endeavours which employ several superstars within their respective fields and hope the lightning strikes again can fall prey to this trope. For one example, the game ''[[Shadows of the Damned]]'' features the work of three famous Japanese developers. The result, while positively received, was not considered a gift from the gaming gods. Likewise, David Hayter, Dave Gibbons ([[Disowned Adaptation|not Alan Moore, though]]), and Zack Snyder put out the ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' movie and received similarly lukewarm reviews.
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