What is "Catch-22"?

[Eric Perry]

indeed, however, i was going for a cross-cultured approach, due to all the racism and such.

[SIZE=-1]Touché[/SIZE], brother stedtale. To the extreme, you rock a mic like a vandal.

 

[stedtale]

and you sir, Mr. 618, got some fresh new kicks and pants, you got it like that now you know wanna dance.

 

[unbasslichkeit]

indeed, however, i was going for a cross-cultured approach, due to all the racism and such.

Which is why I like this term a lot:

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defined as "a term that literally means 'with respect' and in some translations is meant to deliver the message that any insult sent towards it slips off."

 

[Thor]

Just be glad you're not born on leap year!

Well, at least I get a three day celebration next year!
28th, 29th and 1st!

I don't see why people don't invent words and phrases more often. Catch-22 was essentially invented and ingrained into popular culture from that book, and now millions of people know what it means and use it daily.

Those are really the kinds of things that I think the English language needs more of. Words that, despite being small in word length, carries a lot of meaning with it, and the person will know exactly what you are talking about when you say it. We should have more words that symbolize meanings much greater.

That brings us to another Thor story.

The band 'No Exit 7' is named after a road sign prominently
displayed twice on Rte 4 in RI on the Northbound side,
a few miles before it merges into I-95.

Note that the most southerly exit is Exit 5. Then after
exit 5 is the first sign 'No Exit 7'. Then we hit Exit 6,
and a mile up the highway there is another sign 'No Exit 7'.
A few miles later we reach Exit 8 and exit 9 is presumably the
merge.

So not only can our local state government, as personified
by the DOT, not count from 5 to 8; they decided to erect not
one but two signs at taxpayer expense attesting to that
fact, just in case we yet hadn't noticed this glaring planning omission
on the states behalf. Locally we would quip
'That's SO Rhode Island!'.

Ultimately 'No Exit 7' represents the culmination of
government inefficiency and the frankly downright idiocy
that plays out at the level of local politics in the guise
of massive boondoggle. At your expense! As one local TV
pundit says, 'You PAID for It!'.

 

[Bard2dbone]

Aren't exits named after mile markers?

If you drive through a major city, like say Fort Worth, you'll see exit numbers like 231a, 231b, 232,235, 238a,238b...etc.

That's because the first two are each just barely in the beginning and end of 'mile 231', but we're never actually told why it's called 'mile 231' what is it 231 miles away from? And then you have gaps without an exit for more than a mile, like your missing Exit 7.

It just means that sign is around 7 miles away from your equivalent of whatever is 230 or 250 miles away from Fort Worth.

 

[IconBasser]

*sigh*

Catch 22 is the best book I ever read.

 

[Deathblade Eric]

I don't see why people don't invent words and phrases more often. Catch-22 was essentially invented and ingrained into popular culture from that book, and now millions of people know what it means and use it daily.

Those are really the kinds of things that I think the English language needs more of. Words that, despite being small in word length, carries a lot of meaning with it, and the person will know exactly what you are talking about when you say it. We should have more words that symbolize meanings much greater.

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[unbasslichkeit]

Ultimately 'No Exit 7' represents the culmination of government inefficiency and the frankly downright idiocy that plays out at the level of local politics in the guise of massive boondoggle. At your expense! As one local TV pundit says, 'You PAID for It!'.

I think I was going to Maine one summer when I suddenly noticed that New England appears to really enjoy putting up signs in general. Seems like wherever you look there's some damn road sign telling you what to do and where to go as if you had brought no common sense with you from home.

I remember joking to my wife that we should be coming up on a sign soon that said "READ THIS SIGN".

 

[Bard2dbone]

I remember a cartoon back in the day with a great big sign at a bus stop that said DO NOT READ THIS SIGN.

I smirked a little.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

For me Catch 22's come in one form. Korean chicks.