A portmanteau of Conan and conundrum
A difficult choice or decision that must be made due to a sudden, recursive turn of events, similar to the NBC/Jay Leno Show/Conan's Tonight Show controversy
A difficult choice or decision that must be made due to a sudden, recursive turn of events, similar to the NBC/Jay Leno Show/Conan's Tonight Show controversy
NBC: Conan, we gave you The Tonight Show at 11:30, but since The Jay Leno show has been sucking, we're pushing you back to give the slot back to Jay
O'Brian: What a fucking conandrum!
Leno: I have a large chin
Marten: Dora and I were going to go to a concert, but then she wanted to watch a movie. Now I have movie tickets but she wants to go to that concert!
Faye: Assballs!
O'Brian: What a fucking conandrum!
Leno: I have a large chin
Marten: Dora and I were going to go to a concert, but then she wanted to watch a movie. Now I have movie tickets but she wants to go to that concert!
Faye: Assballs!
by Jay Leno's large chin January 21, 2010
Get the conandrum mug.Named for the one and only Conan the Barbarian, this is a problem that has an immediately obvious solution, yet is more easily (or at least more entertainingly) solved by violence.
1: We've got two options here. We can either skim through this book until we find the reference needed to complete the riddle, or we can slaughter the wizard and his evil henchmen and waltz right through.
2: So we've got one option.
1: A real conandrum. Let's go.
2: So we've got one option.
1: A real conandrum. Let's go.
by Circtf January 2, 2009
Get the conandrum mug.Named for the one and only Conan the Barbarian, this is a problem that has an immediately obvious solution, yet is more easily (or at least more entertainingly) solved by violence.
1: We've got two options here. We can either skim through this book until we find the reference needed to complete the riddle, or we can slaughter the wizard and his evil henchmen and waltz right through.
2: So we've got one option.
1: A real conandrum. Let's go.
2: So we've got one option.
1: A real conandrum. Let's go.
by Circtf January 2, 2009
Get the conandrum mug.In film, books, and television, when the day can conveniently be saved by a very specific skill possessed by the protagonist.
See any Aquaman story where the world is saved by talking to fish.
Coined by Marc of Angry Puppy.
See any Aquaman story where the world is saved by talking to fish.
Coined by Marc of Angry Puppy.
by V. Ampersand August 24, 2008
Get the The Aquaman Conundrum mug.When you have the means to do something but still can’t do it. A dodo bird has wings but could not fly. Some would also describe this as not understanding why you can’t achieve a particular goal.
Giuseppe: I have done all the homework and been listening in class and gone to tutoring but i still can’t seem to pass the class
Amy: Wow it sounds like you’re facing the dodo’s conundrum
Amy: Wow it sounds like you’re facing the dodo’s conundrum
by brosifer November 14, 2019
Get the dodo’s conundrum mug.When you are in a sistuation with two or more hot girls, and you can not identify the hotter girl or whichone you would sleep with.
Dave: Look at all these hot chicks!
Steve: Which one would you sleep with?
Dave: All of them.
Steve: Yeah, but if you had to pick just one.
Dave: ... (Coitus Conundrum)
Steve: Which one would you sleep with?
Dave: All of them.
Steve: Yeah, but if you had to pick just one.
Dave: ... (Coitus Conundrum)
by Bagseven May 20, 2010
Get the Coitus Conundrum mug.The paradoxical concept that most hipsters now find themselves in - the fact that to be a hipster is to oppose all things mainstream, but now being hipster is mainstream.
by captain capable November 14, 2012
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