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 07/03/2007 01:16:02 AM · #1
I can't even grasp the concept because it is a paradox and I have no idea how to shoot b but not b.

Can't we just have the "cheeseburger challenge" Go out and shoot a picture of your favorite cheeseburger this week. Instead I am trying to figure out how to shoot a cheeseburger that doesn't have any cheese while keeping it a cheeseburger.
 07/03/2007 01:19:35 AM · #2
Did someone say "cheese"? just a sec...

Edit: .......hahahaha just kidding.

Looks like "Dichotomy" might have less than 5 submissions. If it does, I pledge to vote and comment 100%!

"IDKITMTC"

Message edited by author 2007-07-03 01:25:07.
 07/03/2007 01:23:59 AM · #3
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Did someone say "cheese"? just a sec...


expecting what to come next, crayon quickly reaches for the "thread ignore" button...
 07/03/2007 01:24:51 AM · #4
Originally posted by Jason_Cross:
I can't even grasp the concept because it is a paradox and I have no idea how to shoot b but not b.

Can't we just have the "cheeseburger challenge" Go out and shoot a picture of your favorite cheeseburger this week. Instead I am trying to figure out how to shoot a cheeseburger that doesn't have any cheese while keeping it a cheeseburger.


you are not alone. i've been puzzled as well!
 07/03/2007 01:26:39 AM · #5


My Wifes picture of a Cheeseburger...that's all...not any weird cheese bit...lol
 07/03/2007 01:28:26 AM · #6
Now make that cheeseburger cheeseless while still being able to call it a cheeseburger, and you have an entry.

Does the "wheres the beef" adds count as a Dichotomy?
 07/03/2007 01:32:27 AM · #7
Even Wikipedia isn't a lot of help. And doing an image search on Google? Um...its a little weird.
07/03/2007 01:34:14 AM · #8
If you had a picture of a cow pasture (with cows)...and 2 people arguing in it....there would be your Dichotomy..with your title.."Where's the Beef"
 07/03/2007 01:35:51 AM · #9
Originally posted by tfarrell23:


My Wifes picture of a Cheeseburger...that's all...not any weird cheese bit...lol

MMMMmmmmmm... Can your wife make another one? ...with fries?
 07/03/2007 01:49:41 AM · #10
sure u can finish this, Ken?

07/03/2007 01:52:21 AM · #11
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.

6. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
07/03/2007 01:55:49 AM · #12
Originally posted by tfarrell23:
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.

6. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men


These are great! I think I'm going to abdicate now :)
07/03/2007 09:50:46 AM · #13
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

Finally a word for me.

11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

haha...it is funny on here too.
 07/05/2007 04:08:08 PM · #14
A fat person eating ice cream. The ice cream is good, but the fat is bad.

Is that a dichotomy?
 07/05/2007 04:14:42 PM · #15
Think of "Dichotomy" as an essential or fundamental contrast. "Night & Day" are dichotomous in this sense. A flower growing from a grave is a dichotomy. It's not that big a deal. There ARE other meanings of "dichotomy", especially a religious one, but these fit the bill.

R.
 07/05/2007 04:15:10 PM · #16
I think I found one: a NYC cab driver speaking english.
Just can't visualize the picture though
 07/05/2007 04:15:38 PM · #17
Originally posted by Jason_Cross:
A fat person eating ice cream. The ice cream is good, but the fat is bad.

Is that a dichotomy?


Not really, because eating ice cream makes you fat. A really skinny person chowing down on a huge plate of food, that's a dichotomy of sorts.

R.
 07/05/2007 04:20:44 PM · #18
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Jason_Cross:
A fat person eating ice cream. The ice cream is good, but the fat is bad.

Is that a dichotomy?


Not really, because eating ice cream makes you fat. A really skinny person chowing down on a huge plate of food, that's a dichotomy of sorts.

R.


A fat person eating a salad next to an anorexic eating a huge pile of food works better, but is more of an irony than a dichotomy.
 07/05/2007 04:21:50 PM · #19
Originally posted by wavelength:
A fat person eating a salad next to an anorexic eating a huge pile of food works better, but is more of an irony than a dichotomy.


This is true, but if we get too anal about "dichotomy" it is gonna chase everyone off. What I've said here is a good, level field to play on anyway :-)

R.
 07/05/2007 04:22:09 PM · #20
Should be a cyber-asswhipping sent to whoever suggested this challenge. I'm guessing it was Fotomann.
 07/05/2007 04:24:58 PM · #21
Originally posted by routerguy666:
Should be a cyber-asswhipping sent to whoever suggested this challenge. I'm guessing it was Fotomann.


Nope. It was shamrock.

Dichotomy...Challenge Suggestions!
 07/05/2007 06:39:59 PM · #22
Originally posted by HeiSch:
I think I found one: a NYC cab driver speaking english.
Just can't visualize the picture though


Those are oxymorons not dichotomies.
 07/05/2007 07:03:53 PM · #23
Originally posted by Jason_Cross:
Originally posted by HeiSch:
I think I found one: a NYC cab driver speaking english.
Just can't visualize the picture though


Those are oxymorons not dichotomies.


no, an oxymoron is two contradictory words next to each other, like "military intelligence" or "smart bomb"
 07/05/2007 07:16:40 PM · #24
I'm probably not smart enuff either, but I dug out the old shoehorn and got mine in!

shoe·horn [shoo-hawrn]
–noun
1. a shaped piece of horn, metal, or the like, inserted in the heel of a shoe to make it slip on more easily.

2. a virtual device to light the fire under the dnmc police (aka trolls)

–verb (used with object)
2. to force into a limited or tight space: Can you shoehorn four of us into the back seat of your car?

So I guess the Dichotomy is on me, and I'mma poet and didn't know it.
Now to determine if I used mine as a noun or a verb..
 07/05/2007 07:20:30 PM · #25
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