What is the opposite of a clown car? S asked and answered this question earlier today, but before we get to that, a commentary about what an opposite is and isn’t from Roy Greenhilt: <\/p>\n
“Two things need to be almost the same except for one or two factors to be opposites.”<\/a> [Cartoon violence and argument]<\/p>\n So, getting back to our initial question, we need to start with a description about what a clown car is:<\/p>\n “A car from which many clowns emerge.”<\/p>\n So you could say something like:<\/p>\n “A car from which few (or no) clowns emerge.”<\/p>\n Or perhaps a ‘Clown Truck’:<\/p>\n “A truck from which many clowns emerge.”<\/p>\n Or the ‘Anti-Clown Car’:<\/p>\n “A car which absorbs clowns with no end.”<\/p>\n (Although any clown car would probably have to gorge clowns anyways before it could disgorge them.[1])<\/p>\n But my favourite is S’s:<\/p>\n “A clown from which many cars emerge.”<\/p>\n We tried oppositing other words as we were talking, but none of them really caught on. The opposite of a fire truck was done in Fahrenheit 451[2], the opposite of a cat is clearly a dog, and what is the opposite of a duck?[3]<\/p>\n Or perhaps this one:<\/p>\n “What is the opposite of a puzzle?”<\/p>\n [1]Or merge them before they could emerge.<\/p>\n [2]I always found this disturbing.<\/p>\n [3]Not ‘What is the difference between a duck?’ The answer to that is well known<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the opposite of a clown car? S asked and answered this question earlier today, but before we get to that, a commentary about what an opposite is and isn’t from Roy Greenhilt: “Two things need to be almost the same except for one or two factors to be opposites.” [Cartoon violence and argument] … Continue reading The Opposite of a Puzzle<\/span>