Talk:Up to eleven

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An entry from Up to eleven appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 20 January, 2006.

Wikipedia

The Phazon link in the article leads to the Phazon of the Metroid Prime series.... I'd fix that, but I'm not sure if what the link should be actually exists. - Anon

Changed it to no link. --Concrete Cowboy 17:14, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apple's X11 implementation

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/ look at the headline! I've updated the article correspondingly

Powerpuff Girls reference

FWIW, there's a PPG episode where Bubbles asks for the difficulty setting on a simulator to be set to 11 to prove she is strong.

If I had known there was a Wikipedia entry for this I would've recorded the numerous "11" references I have seen, literally dozens, over the years; and I'm referring to ones where I'm quite sure it was a Spinal Tap reference.

Actual Joke Set-up?

I thought the actual setup to the punchline was that he's showing off all of his amps, and then singles out one of them as being very special - because its dial goes up to eleven, making it louder than all the others. I.e. it's just the one amp that goes up to 11, not all of them. In fact, he's very possessive of this amp, and doesn't want the interviewer to touch it or point at it or even look at it. The following transcript http://corky.net/scripts/ThisIsSpinalTap.html seems to back me up, so I'm going to edit the page, but I thought I'd put my reasoning here.

Thanks for the clarification. Adding link to External links section. -- Malber (talk • contribs) 15:39, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, though, it's a guitar he's never played that he asks DiBergi not to touch or point at.206.116.141.183 02:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth: the scene starts at 22'04 in the movie. And the scene can be seen here: youtube. Peter S. 22:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Dresden Files dials it up to eleven

FYI, in the Feb 11, 2007 episode of The Dresden Files (TV series), "Hair of the Dog", Harry Dresden wants to try and track someone's movements by scent. He grabs something from his desk and sniffs it. When another character asks what he's doing, he off-handedly says "I'm dialing my nose up to eleven."

Not sure that it's significant enough to include in the pop culture section of this article, but there you go. Dugwiki 22:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with This Is Spinal Tap

I'm not sure who proposed the merge, but there's no mention on this talk page so I'll kick it off.

Oppose - The phrase has grown far beyond the original film, with numerous cultural references in a variety of media as well as general speech. It's even mentioned in a major dictionary, which I feel is enough for it's own article. --Darksun 16:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - It's achieved its own level of visibility; I was quoting this long before I even knew it was from Spinal Tap. --209.130.150.117 00:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - It's in the dictionary. Enough said. --Shannonr 06:06, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SSX3

Should it be mentioned that in SSX3 all character attributes go up to 11? - McGeek —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.245.212 (talk) 22:12, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't they just make 10 louder?

Anyone know why they dont do this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shniken1 (talk • contribs) 09:41, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if you're serious, but to take it quite literally, no matter how loud you make ten, eleven is ALWAYS one louder. Nigel is right. He can make 10 louder, but the amps still go up to 11, which is yet louder. 71.197.122.2 (talk) 00:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Or to be more accurate 11 is 100% of volume on a scale of 1-11 on a scale of 1-10 10 is 100% so in fact their the same volume.

83.104.138.141 (talk) 22:18, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But why don't they make it go to 110%? 122.107.20.56 (talk) 15:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But 11 is one louder than ten —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.56.88.21 (talk) 17:31, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Usage in Culture section

Must we really mention every scale that happens to go to 11? Not every usage is a reference to the idiom. If there is no clear indication that it is a reference, then it doesn't belong on this page - that includes the illustration picture.122.107.20.56 (talk) 15:24, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. It's not all that original. In 10 (film) (five years before Spinal Tap), someone asks George (Dudley Moore) how gorgeous Jenny (Bo Derek) is on a scale of ten, and he replies "Eleven." —Tamfang (talk) 07:27, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Temple of the Black Light

While reading this article, I couldn't help but think of these guys...it's sorta related. They believe that 11 is the holiest number or something since it is one greater than ten which is supposedly 'perfect', so eleven goes beyond what is perfect and into the realm of Chaos which is beyond all comprehension. Haven't really looked it up in a while, and unfortunately the site is down at the moment, but you guys can check it out at www.templeoftheblacklight.net when it gets back up. There's a relatively short and not very comprehensive article on their beliefs at Dissection (band).Avnas Ishtaroth (talk) 12:10, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Burnout Paradise

You can put all sound, music and voice up to 11 :) 203.26.122.12 (talk) 03:53, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]