Gonna get rich with my new invention, a meter that monitors the chat at a meeting, counts the words that are negative or positive in attitude, and registers the spirit of the group on a big old dial. It will look like a device you'd see in a mad scientist lab in a black-and-white movie, a heavy dark Bakelite case and a dimly lit dial with just one needle swinging back and forth between the word NO on the left and the word YES on the right. Stay too long in the red zone at the left of the dial and a cheap-sounding electric buzzer rattles the room for a moment or two. The deluxe version would give a clattering teletype printout at the end of the meeting ranking the participants by their negativity and positivity. Of course some people would be proud to be at the negative end of that list, the sad bums.