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Catch-22

A paradoxical situation that has no happy ending. A popular movie with Alan Arkin in 1970, Catch-22 came from Joseph Heller's 1961 comical, yet gruesome, best-selling book about pilots in a fictitious World War II setting. The paradox was that no sane pilot would be crazy enough to want to continue flying dangerous missions. The only way a pilot would be grounded is if he were truly crazy, but if he asked to be grounded, he was then considered sane and would not be grounded.

A Catch-22 with software would be trying to install a new version of the OS that conflicts with the current display driver. Although a new version of the display driver may be available for the new version of the OS, the current display driver does not allow the new OS to be installed. Sometimes, a Catch-22 is used synonymously with a "chicken-egg" dilemma (which comes first?), but it is more accurately a conundrum without a winning solution.

Catch-22

concerned with the frustration of red-tape mechanisms. [Am. Lit.: Catch-22]

See : Bureaucracy

Catch-22

Air Force captain’s appeal to be grounded for insanity not granted because desire to avoid combat proves sanity. [Am. Lit.: Joseph Heller Catch-22]

See : Frustration

Catch-22

pleading insanity to leave army indicates sanity. [Am. Lit.: Catch-22]

See : Irony

Catch-22

claim of insanity to be relieved of military duty proves sanity. [Am. Lit.: Joseph Heller Catch-22]

See : Paradox

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The event was organised by the Positive Futures programme - part of the Catch22 young person's charity.

TEENS MERSEY PARTY AGAINST DRUG USE by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)

Rooth Langston-Hart, pro-jecmanager of the Cardiff Youth Inclusion Project, based at youth charity, Catch22, in Llanrumney, said: "Access to multimedia is prolific and can be a positive tool, but there's always a minority who chose to abuse it.

Can you help police catch 'grotesque' YouTube yobs? Police are eager ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

It is a catch22 situation where you have to stick your neck in more to get the bonus and if you don''t, then your chances of wining is diminished by the cleverly crafted house edge.

Casino Bonus Hunters Wager Aggressively by Arthur Prudent / Gambling community

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