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...urse before you can enroll in it, a phenomenon called {{w|Catch-22 (logic)|Catch-22}}.

:Phelps: Ha hah! Can't catch me!

...dane concerns, like a meeting they might be late for or a bus they have to catch, and take their familiar environment for granted, no matter how fabulous it

..., Carmen Sandiego, was going, and catch her. After catching (or failing to catch) Carmen Sandiego, a character called The Chief would congratulate or encour ...saved the loot, and moved onto the next round, where they had a chance to catch Carmen Sandiego herself. Success was not always guaranteed in this round, a

Other comics which advocate using catch-all phrases as standard responses for any comment:

...plan to the one person who can make it happen because you just happened to catch the same elevator, you are ready. The reason the elevator pitch is so simpl

Drug busts are events where police attempt to catch drug dealers, suppliers, and financiers in situations with enough evidence

...ns the whole "guard sharks" idea as a cover-up, so that his minions do not catch on to the real mission.

...reen, coming from the direction the arrow was fired. Cueball reaches up to catch the boomerang.]

...very popular comic [[149: Sandwich]], which has now become a geek culture catch-phrase.

...isco Giants}} who made a {{w|The Catch (baseball)|famous over-the-shoulder catch}} in the World Series. Some consider it to be the best defensive play of al ...etters a baseball player with the number 24 on his back is reaching out to catch a baseball. The baseball is forming the centre of the 'e' while the arm pro

The saying "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar" means that people are more likely to be :Friend: Hey, ease up on the noobs. Like my mom always said, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

...ath. The poster is placed upside down on Cueball's side of the far wall to catch the rainbow, feed it back into the prism, and turn it back into a narrow st

:[He lowers his arms to prepare to catch the balls. The balls are hovering in mid-air.]

:Cueball: You're not really the "catch" type, are you?

...o were all Federalists and Jacksonians, just to see how long it took us to catch on.

...despite being initially designed for use with {{w|helium}}. Helium cannot catch fire as it is a {{w|noble gas}} and thus completely inert, but helium was u

...$600 / 5BR Three floors w/pool, rooftop garden, beautiful glass facade, no catch, 5-min drive to historic Pripyat.''' :$600 / 5BR Three floors w/pool, rooftop garden, beautiful glass facade, no catch, 5-min drive to historic Pripyat.

...s. The premise is that a young "trainer" goes out to explore the world and catch Pokémon: fanciful wild creatures that come in many varieties, ranging from ...f ''Pokémon'' games, summed up in the slogan "Gotta Catch 'Em All," is to catch Pokémon for the sake of having them.

...uys, be patient. In a few hundred more meals, the genetic algorithm should catch up to existing recipes and start to optimize.

...ng on it or swiping at it with their claws; but they will never be able to catch it.{{Citation needed}} This is very frustrating for cats (and dogs), becaus

...acebook}} and {{w|Twitter}}, someone could conceivably use their laptop to catch up on the lives of everyone they care about from the comfort of their own b #Catch up on the lives of friends around the world

...onsible teens; it could be that he vindictively wishes that they ''would'' catch the coronavirus from the outside of his hamster ball, thus proving that he

...s 2"}}, which was the second episode in which the Mythbusters attempted to catch an arrow mid-flight. The voice from the television is likely that of {{w|Li :TV: Can a ninja catch an arrow? On this episode, we'll find out!

...did not itself include {{w|anabolic steroid}} use; "steroids" is a common catch-all phrase often misused to reference other forms of {{w|Doping in sport|do

...lso smaller prey available (rabbits, squirrels, etc.) which were harder to catch and provided less food. Since bullets are much lighter and cheaper than fo

...ll arc deep into the infield where it's easy picking for the other team to catch on its way down. The highest recorded pop fly, not including those that lan

...es in the puns using the words <code>try</code>, <code>throw</code>, <code>catch</code>, and <code>Throwable</code>. These can refer to actions in the real ...person by ''aiming'' it at them, which causes the person to both throw and catch the ball, and ''aim'' it back, perpetuating the cycle. This program will a

#This comic may simply be general sympathy for those late to catch on to something. Substituting different things for "crossbow" and "Higgs ex

...ain raft in a smaller raft of their own. Cueball twirls a lasso to try and catch them...] :+2944:00 [...the people on the other raft manage to catch the rope.]

:We borrowed the botanical gardens' net to catch promising recruits.

...s for the foreseeable future, to the point where "Flash game" has become a catch-all term for any {{w|browser game}}.

...In_cricket_and_baseball|outfield}}" is a group of players who are there to catch the ball if it goes away from the main play area (anything outside the uppe

#Cueball's friend may fail to catch the hash browns.

...d the most popular. However, this comic is from 2007, and Facebook did not catch up to Myspace until 2008-2009. [Source: {{w|Myspace}}]

...scrutinize and question the aspirant in order to find out if he is a good catch. A particularly delicate issue is the fact that the suitor may have had sex

...y}} towards second base, while Mrs. Whatsit is being encouraged to dive to catch the ball before it hits the ground, to get the batter out. Another characte

...s comically its view counter frozen at 301). At times the number 301 would catch some YouTubers off guard — for very popular videos, it might appear that

...g odd contraptions (with parts ordered from the {{w|Acme Corporation}}) to catch the Road Runner. The Coyote never succeeds, often because his devices don't

...rbit above Earth), Cueball infers and then accuses Black Hat of wanting to catch the {{w|International Space Station}} (ISS) by winching the pole up so that ...tence.{{citation needed}} ''Any'' international space station that he can catch must be ''the'' ISS. (As for non-international space stations, the only one

...a 2030 launch suggested, it would then take the craft over two decades to catch up to the fast-moving body.

...whales jump? || Partly to get air, partly because it's an effective way to catch prey near the surface, and partly because they just seem to find it fun - i ...rofessional game, the National Soccer League still has a long way to go to catch up with the dominance and name recognition of the NFL (American football) (

...ry path for long enough (several billion years), Ganymede would eventually catch up to the 2:1 resonance with Callisto and Callisto would also be trapped in

:Cueball: Imagine kids suddenly start playing catch literally ''all the time''. Everywhere they go, they throw balls back and f

...declines due to fishing impacts both of {{w|shark finning|finning}} and by-catch.

...ith the best, die like the rest" is communicated from the probe. This is a catch phrase of the protagonist, Crash, from ''Hackers''.

***Pikachu: "Aren't you going to catch me? It's not difficult, I promise... Please?" Knit Cap and Hairy ignore him *****Hairy remarks while walking away: "Y'know, if we catch a Pikachu, we would never to pay our electric bills again". (Note the missi

...erang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – she stands with the boomerang] ...erang - continue - she waits - the boomerang returns and she reaches up to catch it – she stands with the boomerang]

...nal electronic circuits. It could also puncture the battery, causing it to catch fire. Either render the watch useless.

| ''{{w|Catch-22}}'' (Book)||novel by Joseph Heller||1961||style="color:#FF0000;" data-so | ''{{w|Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22}}'' (Movie)||film by Mike Nichols||1970||style="color:#FF0000;" data-sor

...to kick it into a {{w|basketball}} hoop where Cueball is either trying to catch, stop or dunk the ball. [[Hairbun]] is also reaching an arm up after the ba ...tinues the comic. After Megan is ruled out, even though Cueball misses the catch, the ball now enters the {{w|golf}} section of the field, meaning that the

...panel Megan begins to search for {{w|butterfly nets}} so they are ready to catch the microdrones when the law to make it legal to steal the drones goes thro *Amazon is out of stock of butterfly nets due to everyone purchasing them to catch drones with, implying many people had the same idea like Megan.

|I'll catch it one day |Help the police catch this violent criminal before he strikes again.

...st] is a common "joke", where the receiver rarely has a chance to actually catch the object. But in this case, it could also be a reference to the fact that

...ond drop below the ledge. It looks like a cracker, so maybe he does try to catch the birds. (To see this clearly you can float up right under the ledge and

...ketball to bounce and roll down the slope, while Cueball runs behind it to catch it. ...loor can be seen at the very bottom of the pictures. It is quite a drop to catch it, but if you did not expect it, it is likely you would reach it before go

Lately [[Randall]] has had his characters catch several things (but [[:Category:Butterfly net|never butterflies]]) with a b

:[He lowers his arms to prepare to catch the balls. The balls are still hovering in mid-air.]

...Cueball, so he chases the bird with a {{w|butterfly net}} in an attempt to catch it. Meanwhile, the bird just continues with the song. (Interestingly, the t Lately [[Randall]] has had his characters catch several things (but [[:Category:Butterfly net|never butterflies]]) with a b

Other comics which advocate using catch-all phrases as standard responses for any comment:

...else nerdy that was worth doing in his life, and hence was worth trying to catch. In its absence, unlike many people, Cueball does not revert to fiddling wi

...]] seems to feel that willingness to deal with "arcane bullshit" is a "{{w|Catch 22}}" that prevents 80s arcane bullshit from being fixed. Someone completel

:Ponytail (narrating): But this time of year, a lucky few may catch a glimpse of a ''king bun''.

...11-minute battery time there might be a chance to get it even if you can't catch it. : The "cloud" is a catch-all term for the use of remote computers to store data, providing a backup

...ave been many computers destroyed by other means, NASA will never actually catch up, no matter how hard they try, making this statistic even more irrelevant

...funding for this, but NASA sponsored their proposal, so it will be hard to catch the telescope people by surprise with it.

...d similar records might miss individual year-to-year variation, but should catch sustained changes lasting many decades, which is the time scale that matter

...te a backlog of emails, that could soon be so large it would take years to catch up to the e-mail you just got right now.

...lled "light buckets" because they can have extremely big openings that can catch light from even very faint stars. In addition, because it has a mirror at o

...releasing the {{w|Note 7}} after the {{w|Note 5}}, likely in an attempt to catch up to the numbering of either the {{w|iPhone}} or {{w|Galaxy S}} series, bo ...e the goal is to go to specific locations and play a mini game in order to catch virtual creatures called {{w|Pokémon}} (see [[1705|1705: Pokémon Go]]). T

...owever, Randall's photos take up so much space that even Moore's law can't catch up to the number of photos stored.

"Original content" is a catch-all term for unique creative products created by a website, e.g. articles,

...fact that it was published there. Additionally, a screenshot is easier to catch people's attention with, as it doesn't require them to take any actions to

...ssage should have been written instead. This feature would also be able to catch anyone who tries to avoid the feature depicted in the comic by saving the e

* '''Tracked''': This would allow the police to catch the perpetrator and return your phone. This function is available on most m ...speed, or to run them over when the running ceases. This could absolutely catch the thief, but would also just be really, really creepy.

;Apple products catch fire when displaying emoji with diacritics. :CVE-2018-????? Apple products catch fire when displaying emoji with diacritics.

...most popular in the early 1990's for ''{{w|U Can't Touch This}}'' with the catch phrase ''{{w|Hammer Time|Stop: Hammer Time}}'', and {{w|hammer pants|shiny}

...tells them what is inside it. The host continues, "don't bother trying to catch that one." This could be understood as she means it's too hard to point the ...ne. They're full of snacks and money and stuff, but don't bother trying to catch them- they're ''way'' too high up.

...end of a full run, a {{w|Yeti|white furry monster}} appears, and tries to catch the player. The ''SkiFree'' monster was a subject of the [[667: SkiFree]] c

...email clients have started implementing helpful warnings and reminders to catch common human mistakes and ease the process of communication. One such featu

...hat their data is being exploited in this way. Regulation has been slow to catch up with changing online trends; however, the European Union have recently i

...n the form <math>\int u dv</math>, your problem ''may'' be simplified. The catch is, there exists no algorithm for determining what functions they might pos

* Another fan favorite. Can 🚶 catch up to 🧙?

...in another. But Jones has a solid lead the thousands place, if Smith can't catch up there, it's over.

|On a file system, "Documents" is generally used as a catch-all term for the user's personal files.

* [https://blog.xkcd.com/2019/08/16/serena-versus-the-drones/ How to Catch a Drone]

...is that engineers often expect that a superior technology or standard will catch on, though often other factors keep an "inferior" standard dominant. (See v

Notably, the rename to COVID-19 did eventually catch on as the default description of the disease caused by "The Coronavirus" SA

:White Hat: We have this new "bitcoin" thing &mdash; does it ever catch on and become normal?

|Catch up on the news||[[1699: Local News]] (maybe incomplete)|| || ||

...only know for sure that your precautions were insufficient if and when you catch COVID ''and'' either get tested or develop symptoms, by which point it is t

Megan then proposes a plan to catch and breed Blair Witches in an attempt to resurrect the species. This final

...ode (although some would argue there should be). The law often has to play catch-up with technology. However, as when the EPA took an interest in Cueball's

...messing with people's minds, as Randall suggests. However, should the word catch on with English speakers, perhaps precisely because it is a joke, its 'bott

...for the axe catching part, injuries are likely to occur from attempting to catch flying axes, especially if the catcher is inexperienced.

...raud, much as cartographers will print {{w|trap street}}s on their maps to catch plagiarism.

It is also possible that a person who has been able to catch a sneeze-producing condition has also caught COVID-19 and, while the sneeze

...rationality}} of all players with respect to the game theory problem. The catch is that here we have the same number as a grade for the cybersecurity exam

...sis for this study might be "The vaccine has no effect on whether subjects catch COVID." The null hypothesis was previously the subject of [[892: Null Hypot ...nder the null hypothesis; we expect 500 people to catch COVID. If only 490 catch COVID, the null hypothesis remains plausible, but if just 10 do, the odds a

...bounced back with a vengeance or be over-compensated for in the effort to catch up.

...ly, birdseed can be used to attract birds after surviving a crash, e.g. to catch them for food.

...e good captain has a sufficiently quick reaction time and the dexterity to catch the projectile cup, the tea will likely end up spilled onto the floor or sp

|Some people have turtles in their cellars believing that they catch rats and mice. |But doubt whether a turtle could catch a rat or a mouse

:: Some people have turtles in their cellars believing that they catch rats and mice. I tried keeping some of mine in the cellar for two seasons i ...making its endless march around the cellar. I doubt whether a turtle could catch a rat or a mouse.

...d after a Winnie-the-Pooh story in which Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet try to catch an imaginary animal called a woozle, and accidentally follow their own trac

...e a lot more time (or reality-inducing [[1674: Adult|grown-up events]]) to catch up to his true age. He can be seen staring out of the window in the fourth

|[https://what-if.xkcd.com/81/ Catch!]

| Windmill || Windmills need to have significant height in order to catch enough air movement to drive them. They are thought of as quiet, relative t

...egal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

...because most people over 75 would not be able to run fast enough to outrun/catch up to an animal and mount it{{Citation needed}} and would not have the rebe

| Catch! || || 81 || || 12

...than the original programmer(s) intended. This is a {{w|Catch-22 (logic)|''Catch-22''}} situation that many developers have experienced; the first one even

...craft could teach you a thing or two about speed. Of course, you'd have to catch up to them first... ...craft how to increase speed. Cueball's metaphor goes on to having to meet (catch up with) someone in order to learn something from him. The Voyagers are cur

...puter simulating the Universe off-guard. However, either could conceivably catch the computer simulating the Universe off-guard because it would be difficul

...more recent ones that critics generally like; and, if so, does he need to catch up on the initial movies first?

...estock both on the ground (while taxiing) and perhaps also in the air (to "catch" flying cows, such as any that have decided to jump over the Moon).

...xkcd.com/1 you would be destroyed by the energy], so everyone tries not to catch it in that fashion. Of course, as shown in the ''[[What If?]]'' link above, :Cueball: Everyone has to try '''''not''''' to catch the relativistically-ejected bouquet.

...in a area with a reasonable amount of birds. But why would you ''want'' to catch bird poop in your mouth? || [[File:Droppings.png]] | 81 || {{what if|81|Catch!}} || January 28, 2014 || 1.0 || Is there any way to fire a gun so that the

...craft could teach you a thing or two about speed. Of course, you'd have to catch up to them first...

...en wait for passing drivers who are exceeding the speed limit, so they can catch them and issue speeding tickets. Frequent drivers, especially truck drivers