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This is a traditional water feature that is found in the yards of Japanese homes, properly called a ''[[wikipedia:Shishi-odoshi|shishi-odoshi]]'' or "deer scare"/"deer-chaser". It has a bamboo cup on a fulcrum that slowly fills with falling water. When it fills, it tips over and empties; when it flips back upright, its hollow back end hits a stone underneath it and makes a distinctive hollow-log "doink" sound. With a simple two-second shot of this device doing its thing, it is established without a doubt that this [[Big Fancy House]] is a place of wealth and tradition. Of course, if the doinker happens to be in a Western home, you can bet that they're a [[New Age Retro Hippie]] who recently converted to Zen Buddhism and insists that the doinker "balances the home's chi" or whatever.
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In addition to indicating a moneyed and traditional household,
[[Long List|Not to be confused with]] [[Discworld|the thing that goes parp]],[[Rhythm Heaven Fever|The Thing That Goes Donk-Donk]], [[The Thing (film)|the thing from another world]], [[Final Fantasy|the thing which, if it doinks you, you die]], [[Law and Order|the thing that goes doink-doink]], [[Calvin and Hobbes|the scientific progress that goes boink]], [[Team Fortress 2|the GUY who says boink]], [[Doctor Who|the thing that goes ding when there's stuff]], [[Monty Python's The Meaning of Life|the machine that goes ping]], [[Context Sensitive Button|the button]] [[Conkers Bad Fur Day|that goes ting]], [[Portal (series)|the thing-we-don't-know-what-it-does]], [[The Addams Family|the Thing that lives in a box]], [[
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