The potentialopportunity created by a confusing or illogical problem; an attempt to fabricate an opportunity where one is actually highly unlikely/ impossible;
fabricated opposite of conundrum;
While locking your car keys inside your car is a conundrum, claiming that you can take some action to resolve the situation would convert the situation into a "pronundrum".
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)