Paradox Bar

A bar or club that only lets in regulars. Only a few bars are true paradoxes. Others instead only restricts their audience to regulars on certain weekdays, or between certain times - or a combination of both.

Bouncer: "Sorry, we only let in regulars today. You're not going in."
Non-regular A: "What? How can you be a regular without being let in regularly? This bar is a paradox"
Non-regular B: "Yeah, fucking Paradox Bar"
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C: "Wanna go down to the Havana Club?"
D: "Nah, we'll never get in - it's a Paradox Bar"

Paradox Bar by Oby July 25, 2012

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Cold Cat

An incident on an aircraft carrier's flight deck where the steam-powered catapult or "cat" which launches aircraft that can't take off vertically. It happens when something apart from or inside the system absorbs too much heat from the steam reservoir or cylinder, causing it to cool. If enough heat is lost, the steam will condense. Since water takes up much less room than steam, pressure is lost, and the catapult's strength is lost.

This can be an unnoticeable and slight loss of thrust, or it could result in the launched aircraft plopping into the sea.

Opposite of a 'hot cat' which could result in loss of control or a torn up nose cone.

"Cold cat! Cold cat!" shouted the pilot through his radio before another Hornet was lost, this time not because of combat.

Cold Cat by oron61 October 5, 2019