Yes. Those two, Pro gress, and Con gress have been feuding for a while now. Anytime Pro wants to accomplish anything worthwhile, Con and his gang of well-dressed, well-mannered thugs try every underhanded, malicious, trick they can scrounge up to discredit Pro. It seems Pro is even more alone now, since that other miscreant, Re, started showing up everywhere that con does. You see one, you see the other. God only knows what kind of trouble those greedy buffoons will try & stir up. Pro better hurry up and get started without De-lay. Great question, BTW. Rottweiler - I'm not exactly sure what "conre" means, but just to clarify - Pro gress, Con gress and Re gress.

an assembly...

Its crazy u even thought of that.

this joke was originally made by steve harvey. it's really funny, but i've kind of had a problem with it since i started hearing my friends use it. see, "pro" comes from latin meaning "on the behalf of" and "con" comes from latin "contra" meaning against. so really, progress has nothing to do with the word "pro" as it is used with "pro" and "con", and the same goes for the punchline "congress." although, thinking that congress is the opposite of progress is really hilarious and an extremely clever joke, just make sure you never ask the person "wait...what really is the opposite of progress?" or "wait...what does just 'gress' mean then?" you should also laugh at those people too! (and IMO "regress" would be the opposite of "progress") excellent posting!

di-gress

OK this one really IS a dupe. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/38907

yes and why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways, and what color does a smurf turn when you choke it, and why dont they build the whole plane out of the material they make the little black box from, and so on and so forth

haha, yes it is.

Republican.

Cute question:), but the opposite of progress is regress.

mmmmm con + gress = parliament?

Old joke. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/38907

heehee... that's cute.

Digress, actually, although I get your joke.

can you explain the joke to me? I'm having a 'moment'... and it's driving me up the wall. :)

GWB?

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/38907

Congress. And the opposite of constitution is prostitution. And I once had a book with a big list of these con/pro s plus alot of similar things but unfortunately its gone now and that's all I can remember.

ssergorp

regress---but I get the joke :)

1528, from L. congressus "a meeting, hostile encounter," pp. of congredi "meet with, fight with," from com- "together" + gradi "to walk," from gradus "a step" (see grade). Sense of "meeting of delegates" is first recorded 1678. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=congress The word "com" used for making the word 'congress' is different from "con" which is the opposite of "pro".

You are wise!! :)

I like the way you think.

LOL, that actually is true too =]

It's a joke at the expense of a body of people WE elected to do a job for us. Most of these people, believe it or not, work long hours and truly do have their constituents' best interests at heart. BTW ... if you didn't vote, STFU.

Excellent observation!

I agree with it.

CONGRESS

Reminds me of the definition of politics. Poly= many Tics = blood sucking creatures;)

only in dc is ac needed for hot air from inside the building and not outside

Yes, and if oyu break down the word "politics" you have "ploy" and "tics". Which in I think latin means many little blood sucking bugs.

Yes, and the opposite of constitution would be prostitution, and I used to have a book with a big list of similar opposites. If I remember rightly it was called, "Fun With Words." It would be nice to get my hands on another copy.

Congress is very progressive. They even passed a bill last month.

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Your example is faulty. It is limiting the meaning of "con" to one thing. People work in CONcert with one another..that means they work together. People are members of a CONgregation..they don't work against each other. There is a CONfluence of thought..meaning agreement, not disagreement. :) So CONgress is a body of people working together. :)

No, the opposite of to progress would be to regress.

I think this statement is cleaver so I give you +5! :)

That is so true that some stockbroker has shown that when Congress is in session stock prices either go down or stay the same, but when they aren't they go up. If you'd bought stock only while they were in session since 1900 you'd have like 2% more money than you had to begin with; but if you bought stock while they weren't you'd have like 12,000% of what you started with.

No the word is degress! Different word but same meaning

no,socialism

English Language Lunacy We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen? If I speak of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, Yet hat in the plural would never be hose, And the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim! Let’s face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; Neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England. We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, Grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If teachers taught, why don’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think that all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people: Recite at a play and play at a recital? We ship by truck but send cargo by ship. We have noses that run and feet that smell. We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway. And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on. And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother’s not Mop?

Har har har, olllld joke. Next.

No it is regress.

UNfortunately, prefix CON here has two meanings. The first is a slang shortening of latin prefix "CONTRA" ( as in contrast, contradict etc). The 2nd is italian (therefore probably latin also) origin, "CON" - meaning 'with'.

If a quiz is quizical what is a test?

that's kinda funny. ;)

Yes!

Old joke ... but (unfortunately) it has never been more true than it is at present. Congress is indeed a joke. The sad part is that Congress is now and will always be considered as the instrument of death of our once great nation.

Whether that was intentional or unintentional, YOU DESERVE A MEDAL. +

This question has been asked at least 4-5 times..research it and get the answers and PLEASE watch for duplicates

Actually it is regression that is the opposite to progress or progression. Digress is something completely different. it would work if this was monty python though

It certainly seems that way!

No, It'd be regress.

Antigress.

Sorry, duplicate. You can bet some ultra-patriot is one his way to answer this in a post full of personal attacks.

lol

very clever question... +3 you are one smart cookie!

Mark Twain probably would have loled. I did :-D

omg lmao that is funny you would think so they rarely agree on anything and always turning down anything anyone try's to pass seems like to me lmao

And they also Regress and Digress

Wow...Hmmmm...Ahhh, no... :)

It sure seems to be so much of the time. Nice play on words!

Good observation

That is a great way of looking at it Thanks.

May be! lol

congress lmao!!

congress for sure

Certainly sounds like congress to me.

congress! jk :) idk

Flagged as a duplicate question. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/38907 Did this question not come up as a suggested 'Similar question' when you started to ask yours?

regress???

static or congress

Congress is absolute opposite of Progress!

regress

congress...

regress I think.

It would be regress, but I have heard this one before. The right answer is congress.

hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

How many times has this question been asked on Answerbag?

Congress, especially in 2009!

Complacent-ness ?

congress Do you want some more opposites? product conduct procession concession productivity conductivity profess[ion][al] confess[ion][al] profound confound Pro might not really be the opposite of con, after all...

hahahah... i'm going to share this one :)

Bozo Obama

You got it backwards: Congress is the opposite of progress.

One dictionary meaning of congress is sexual intercourse. So therefore a. Congress is screwed and b. the Congress is screwing all of us.

It would seem that way. Why can't they just agree on something regardless of who brought the bill to the floor. There's too much bickering between the two parties.