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"What is up, dog?"
Side note: the opposite of cat isn't actually dog. The opposite of cat is goldfish. A goldfish loves water, is not fluffy, doesn't exterminate every bird for sport, will never knock your favorite coffee mug off your desk, not bipolar, and I'm not allergic to them.
There are several domestic cat breeds known for loving water; one is the Bengal.
If dog is not the opposite of cat, then why did everyone immediately know the answer is dog? Hmm 🤔
...when i was in second grade i wrote a book report on chocolate fever, in which the climax involved the protagonist taking vanilla pills, which were so obviously the opposite of chocolate to my eight-year-old perspective, but which no adults with whom i discussed the book found at all obvious...
I seem to remember a youtube video from years ago explaining how things can be opposites in different ways, like glue is the opposite of scissors because of the use, red is the opposite of blue because of what they represent, etc.
The wiki article lists a few categories like gradable words that exist on a spectrum (hot/cold), complementary or binary pairs with no spectrum (entrance/exit, moral/immoral), and relational types that only make sense in a certain context (teacher/student).
I've never thought this hard about this before and I'm finding myself suddenly glad that other people have. This is really neat.
What would be the opposite of any mammal? A carrot? A brick? A slime mold?
Does everything actually have an "opposite"?
I'd say everything has several opposites, each in a different aspect.
If we're following bizzaro world logic, the opposite of anything is the version that's stupid, or if you're stupid, then smart.
I imagine bizarro me is teaching physics in a prestigious university.
Humans (like most living things) like to put things in boxes to make navigating their environment simpler. Temperatures aren't really opposites because they're on a continuum, but we talk about hot and cold as opposites to bring order to environmental navigation. The same with presence and absence of light and bright/dark. So, extending this logic, the opposite of cat is the absence of cat, but that doesn't really make sense. If you cut a cat in half, are you halfway on a continuum from cat to the opposite of cat? If the cat is whole but has died, is it cat, opposite of cat, something else entirely? I have no idea, and no one else really does either. Brains are weird.
What is undown anticat?
Pretty sure that's the answer to the anti life equation... nobody tell darkseid (ﾟﾛﾟ)
I would phrase it as, "What is 'up' and 'dog?'" Being extra clear but ruining the joke.
tee isn't exactly the opposite of cat but I can't remember a command that only redirects screen output to a file.
What is up, tee?
edit: what's the opposite of "cd .."?
cat is for concatenating files, so the opposite would be something that breaks a stream up into multiple files.
What's up dog?!
Not much, what's up with you?
Oh oh! I know this one since I play Slice and Dice!
A dog will try to save your life if you're drowning. A cat will sit on your head to keep from getting wet while you're drowning.
head | tee
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A better clue might be
This direction and pet combo became a common “gotcha” in the early 2000s.
Sure a better clue if you don't want the joke to work
What is the opposite of a cat, then?
If your answer is, "it doesn't have one," then I nominate dog.
The opposite of cat is >
The opposite of cat is cat.
I'd say mouse as there are many manic cat mouse duos like Itchy and Scratchy
Not much how about you.
What is up and what is png
each letter in PNG is exactly opposite the corresponding letter in CAT if the letter were equally distributed around a circle in alphabetical order.
The best answer would actually be "not much, what's up with you"
The opposite of the opposite of wrong is left.