Rung
Rung noun - The placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement.
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Scale
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- Being lower than the top rung on the satire scale, DIAB was itself spoofed, in "Box in a Box" (featured on Countdown), which left Mr Timberlake lost for an opinion.
Source: Intercourse with You -
In an aversion of fiction's usual human chauvinism, the Human Alien form was explicitly at the most "primitive" level in the scale, with Insectoid Aliens above them, and the top rung being, predictably, Energy Beings.
Source: Evolutionary Levels
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