Sunday, January 27, 2008
Opisometer
An opisometer apparently measures curved lines like the ones on a map. It's a wheel running on a screw, or so my dictionary puts it. I don't have a need for an opisometer at this stage, but I enjoyed the ideas of our word imps and have put three on the poll for voters. As the poll isn't working at the moment, I'm not sure who our winner is. You'll know as soon as I do, or vice versa!
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Optisometer - A clever little device which straps around your stomach and with green, amber and red LEDs, indicating how many pies or cream buns you can eat at any one sitting. It helps avoid those situations where your eyes (opto) are bigger than your tummy giving you a (ti)ght waistband.
Unfortunately, not popular generally due to the loud klaxon sound it makes when you try to stuff an extra bun in your mouth.
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You're right, it is a measuring device. It's used to measure the audiences of opinions of things, for example in a party political broadcast, or a phone-in programme.
An opisometer is an over the counter version of the breathalyser, and is mainly used by the long suffering partners of habitual drunks, to determine the level of innebriation and subsequent annoying behaviour that might ensue if the offender is allowed in at night.
Opisometer measures the length of time for what a person sees for the person to identify the image vebally.
An opisometer is used to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease as well as other brain and neurological diseases.
Opisometer is a device left out somewhere to measure animal movement, useful for wildlife study by behaviorists, ecologists or government agencies. Sometimes opisometrics determine whether it's okay to build in a certain area, or whether there's lots of wildlife there at night or other times the survey teams aren't there.
An opisometer probably measures the likelihood that a spouse will do the exact opposite of what is expected of them. I.e. expectation is help with the dishes. Opisometer reading is off the scale for going out to the shed to bang in a few nails.
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