I was having a hard time coming up with this old joke. It was on the tip of my tongue but I just wasn't getting it, and I knew that it was so obvious I would be embarrassed when I finally remembered it. Rather than asking a person for help, I asked the Google.
"When is a ____ not a _____?"*
Very often, as it turns out.
The one I had been trying to think of was: When is a door not a door? (When it is ajar)
But there were others working that same idea: When is a car not a car? (When it turns into a driveway)
And then, there was the bounty of the interweb spreading forth before me:
When is a crisp not a crisp? (When it is more like a cake or biscuit, according to Pringle attempting to get out of UK taxes that apply to the potato chip category but not other food categories)
When is a volunteer not a volunteer? (It isn't just about not getting paid)
When is a swastika not a swastika? (When it's encoded in unicode. Duh.)
When is a pegleg not a pegleg? (When you need a doctor's note to avoid having to check it on EasyJet.)
When Is a Tetrathiolate Not a Tetrathiolate (Um, yeah.)
To this list I add my own:
When is a house not a house? (When it is afire)
When is a boat not a boat? (When it is afloat)
When is a blog post no longer clever and entertaining? (OK. See you tomorrow.)
*In Google-speak, this is "When is a * not a *?".
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