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hospitality paradox 

A theory when hospitality/friendliness and privacy never go hand in hand
Hotel's room service is the perfect example of hospitality paradox: Imagine when you're experimenting with sex and your room service rang the bell: you'll be panicked since you're afraid they report you for indecent behaviour
hospitality paradox by Sir. B February 21, 2021

plummer's paradox 

A plummer's paradox is a situation that, upon first inspection, appears to be paradoxical, but in fact is not at all.
Ex:
"After she broke her jaw in that car accident, she couldn't chew, and could barely swallow. But she didn't starve; to the contrary she was well fed. What a paradox!"
"Ah, you mean a plummer's paradox. Of course, they kept her tube-fed."
plummer's paradox by jowjow November 4, 2013

The DiCaprio Paradox 

DiCaprio never wins an oscar, no matter what he does.
DiCaprio creates 49 clones of himself and each of his clones and he himself are all nominated for an oscar. All 50 DiCaprio's show up and they are the only ones at the academy awards. Still, DiCaprio will not win an oscar. It will go to someone else. That, is the DiCaprio Paradox.

Trotsky's paradox 

In short, when a word becomes confused with another word and eventually takes its place
The word 'nice' is a good example of Trotsky's paradox
Trotsky's paradox by Skittles2006 August 28, 2017

Lidia bogdonovski paradox

Where someone named Lidia Bogdonovski starts to randomly sing, it can happen for his/her god-like name.
This plant has a name that reminds me of the lidia bogdonovski paradox

hippo paradox

When reality turns out to be night and day from a reasonable and logical guess of the

evidence.
The phrase refers the skull of a hippo, which to someone who had never seen the live animal, would

likely assumed it to look like Picture 1, and nowhere near the real animal (see link)

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Surely it looks impossible that there could be life on Mars. But there may be a hippo paradox!
You may think there's no reason to look further. But don't fall for the hippo paradox.
We all were sure the job would be easy, but it turned out a real hippo paradox.
hippo paradox by Sir Rutherford August 19, 2016