Sunday, March 01, 2009

what the heck is a conundrum..



person 1:
i'm facing a conundrum
person 2: huh? here you are using words i can't even spell again..
person 1: lol, you're a local..im using your language....anyway, i need to decide and i only have two options but don't know which to choose because either would make me miserable
person 2: choose the lesser evil
person 1: both are equally evil


i just thought i'd share that........  i was looking at dictiorary.com and other "definitions" sites and they all give me the same definitions:

- a very hard puzzle
- a riddle

- a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.
- the conundrum is trying to reconcile contrasting or different things that are in some ways mutually exclusive.


the last one above is close but this is the best practical situational definition i found:

no matter what option you take you are in for trouble.


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