Fun Oxymorons

definite maybe
cafeteria food
computer security
randomly organized
rap music
windows upgrade
government organization

and my favorite:

Microsoft Works :)

Anyone else have some fun ones?

Council worker :p

Here are quite a few. I actually found a page with hundreds, but I can't remember where. I will try to find it. BTW, the plural is oxymora.

Act naturally
Advanced BASIC
Aging yuppie
Clearly confused
Clearly misunderstood
Definite maybe
Dry beer
English Efficiency
Exact estimate
Fighting for peace
Found missing
Friendly competitor
Graduate student
Gunboat diplomacy
Hard water
Industrial park
Ironwood
Kosher ham
Liquid crystal
Military Intellegence
Monopoly
Never generalize
OpenVMS
Passive aggression
Plastic glasses
Plastic silverware
Pretty ugly
Progressive Conservative
Real fantasy
Rolling stop
Same difference
Silent scream
Student teacher
Tax return
Terminal initialization
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True story
Unbiased opinion
United States
Vegetable beef soup
Virtual reality
Waiting patiently
Work Party
Working vacation

"Borrowed" from this page:

http://www.ri.ac.uk/DFRL/D.H.Gay/Oxymora.html


Some of my personal favorites:

Friendly fire
Jumbo shrimp
Civil war

Secure Microsoft OS :D

Okay,

Australian English
Crash Landing
Coalition Unity
Cheap Justice
Down Elevator
Easy Finance
Economics Expert
English Cricket Team
English Quality
Friendly Fire
Free Warranty
Happy Ending
Help Desk
Kiwi Cricket Team
Quality Journalism
Quick Chevy
Rhetoric
Tax Relief
Viable Airline
Virtual Reality

Just a few that spring to mind, and a few more, and some too.
Cheers, Rusty. http://www.sysopt.com/images/ieimages/2001/10/8.gif

near-miss

good-morning

bad sex

lost & found (how can something be lost AND found? It's only one or the other.)

perfect child

honest lawyer

lifetime guarantee

no-fault insurance

unemployment check

blow job

dependable Ford

over-sleeping (how can one sleep too much?)

over-paid

must-see TV

Reverend Jackson

User-friendly Macintosh (or intuitive Mac, shyeah!)

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Originally posted by Scorpio69 BTW, the plural is oxymora.

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Thanks for the info. Obviously, I didn't know that :)

i think the ultimate is

Central Intelligence Agency

the yamminator

Jumbo Shrimp
Quiet Riot
Freezer Burn
Icy Hot
Alone Together

Comfortably Numb :)

:) :) :) Comfortably Numb :) :) :) Help Desk :) :) :)

terribly helpful
expansion set

sorry, i'm brain dead today

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same difference
happily married (lol)

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Thanks for the info. Obviously, I didn't know that

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I didn't either until I stumbled across a website devoted to them. BTW, I found the link to it, but it's down. I will check again later and post if it comes back up. This site has hundreds.