"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.
The opposite of a cat is the absence of a cat ☝️
The absence of a cat implies nothing is there. So the opposite of a cat is nothing (specifically nothing where a cat should have been).
So, another acceptable answer would be "what is up? Nothing."
The absence of a cat implies the absence of a cat. There could be a dog instead or a Gasplanet which has a species of conscious whales wearing silly hats rolling in the mud to communicate the need for a fruity beverage. It could be anything, it could be nothing. It is not possible, from the given facts, to come to any concrete conclusion besides that a cat, is in fact, absent.
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...
The adults were wrong. Vanilla is obviously the opposite of chocolate.
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.
I didn't. I was like huh there is no opposite of cat, then read the title, then got even more confused... How does anyone think the answer is dog?
In no logical way does cat being the opposite of dog make sense. It's just a typical association because there was always a stronger cat vs dog stereotype in media as I was growing up. I learned that cats and dogs don't get along, are mortal enemies, etc. This of course isn't true, but it's overly portrayed in media that way.
The opposite of cat is "inside-out cat".
No, thats still a cat.
You're thinking of antimatter cats.
antimatter cat is the only acceptable opposite of cat
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.
I would phrase it as, "What is 'up' and 'dog?'" Being extra clear but ruining the joke.
There are many ~~answers~~ questions the judges will accept, but only one correct ~~answer~~ question!
(Also happy cake day!)
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?
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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What is the opposite of a cat, then?
If your answer is, "it doesn't have one," then I nominate dog.
!cat
I'd say mouse as there are many manic cat mouse duos like Itchy and Scratchy
The opposite of cat is cat.
The opposite of cat is >
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
The best answer would actually be "not much, what's up with 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 opposite of the opposite of wrong is left.
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