Can you create some variations on the phrase "when pigs fly"?
The phrase when pigs fly is an adynaton – a figure of speech so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. The implication of such a phrase is that the circumstances in question (the adynaton, and the circumstances to which the adynaton are being applied) will never occur.
Have you heard of a different phrase to describe an impossibility? If not, create your own!
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When jellyfish do the tango.
When monkeys fly out of my butt! Wayne’s World FTW.
When Fluther is bought by Facebook, Google, or Microsoft.
When hell freezes over (that’s an old one).
The next month that has six Tuesdays.
When the river flows upstream.
When the Sun sets in the East.
When Stevie Wonder watches Star Wars.
When all Americans have healthcare.
When the Republican Mayor of San Francisco says so.
When the Red Sox win Cubs play in the World Series.
When infomercials stop annoying people.
Or or!!!:
When the world makes sense.
“Hey look Timmy, it’s a police helicopter!”
When the devil sells snowcones!
When the Vatican offers workable family planning advice.
When Jesus, Buddha and Allah actually walk into a bar…
When Whole Foods has a Taco Bell.
God knows.
No, wait, that’s my answer!
When Pork Chops are kosher.
When the cow jumps over the moon. Wait, that’s possible now.
When women become priests. That’s becoming possible too. hmmm.
When there is one day when no one says an unkind word to another. Human nature will take care of that never happening.
@laineybug – I’d like to see photos of you and your mom in goth gear ;)
When Dane Cook makes me laugh.
When Symbeline stops swearing.
One I actually heard though, when hell freezes over. I guess it’s a bit different…I mean, whether hell can or cannot freeze over, as an atheist, I don’t believe Hell exists, so whether it can freeze or not doesn’t matter, haha.
When I give up chocolate.
When I quit eating Chinese food.
When Sarah Palin tosses my salad.
When Sunderland wins the Premiership.
When Hitler reincarnates as a bunny.
Hey! I already used that one, you cheater! :P
When Kurdistan becomes a country.
@erichw1504 In the known history of the world, there has not been one documented case of broccoli-inspired labor.
Not one.
Remember WKRP Cincinnati? The tv show?
One Thanksgiving they had a Thanksgiving contest involving real, live turkeys.
They flew over a shopping center parking lot, in a helicopter, and released the live turkeys.
Turkeys hit the pavement, hit cars, hit people.
Only one statement was heard…............................
AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I THOUGHT TURKEYS COULD FLY !!!
@john65pennington Man, what kind of psychos drop a bunch of poor turkeys all over pavement and cars?
Symbeline, this was an actual show that laughed us right out of our chairs.
But they actually dropped turkeys on people? From how high? I mean some of the birds must have been hurt or died. O_o
When my grandmother starts acting her age!
When Hot Topic stops enforcing the use of weed.
When an Asian becomes pope.
When Snooki goes to church.
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