is anything really possible?

so my club ultimate team just won our leagues end of season tournament, and there was a recurring theme in our huddles/prep-talks and such: this whole concept of "giving 110%"

now my inner geek compelled me to incite some friendly discussion, constantly stating that 110% is impossible, which normally got the response, "anything's possiblllleee!"

orly?

it seems like there are really a few ways that you can achieve the fabled 110%

• there being a competition in which you give N% and your competitor is at (N-110)% so that your relative effort is 110%
• have your reference point be fairly conservative, like running 110% faster than mikey or being 110% uglier than your mom.
  
• being kevin garnett
• slacking off during the calibration phase of your experiment so "100%" is easy to achieve.
  
• pretty much as long as you frame your phrase with enough qualifiers that give people a frame of reference w/which to measure percentage, you should be good.
• however the 110% absolute percent is still not possible.

another interpretation (it's all in the semantics) is possibly just giving someone 110% of the desired amount

• think about gratuity at a restaurant
• too much attention (stalker, much?)