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{{quote|'''Soleta:''' Readings are off the scale.
'''McHenry:''' They're always off the scale. We've just to install bigger scales. }}
* Funny inversion in ''[[Good Omens]]'' by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: The temperature at the evil sigil during the [[
* ''The Last Continent'' in [[Discworld]] uses a thaumometer, that measures magical energy. Sure enough, it melts when it detects a magical field of over a million thaums. To be fair, that is a far greater amount than would ever normally be encountered, but they'd accidentally traveled back in time to when a Creator was installing an entire new continent.
** Given the nature of Discworld magic, melting is about the most normal thing one could expect at this
** And who can forget CMOT Dibbler's "dragon detector"? It's a piece of wood on a metal stick. When the stick was burned through, you'd found your dragon.
*** That sounds like a variation on the old weather detecting stone gag - stone is dry: fine weather; stone is wet: rain; stone is white: snow; stone is gone: hurricane.
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