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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?
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Council worker
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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
Last edited by Scorpio69; 10-05-2001 at 04:14 AM.
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Secure Microsoft OS
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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.
Last edited by RustyGT; 10-05-2001 at 09:54 AM.
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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.
Thanks for the info. Obviously, I didn't know that
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i think the ultimate is
Central Intelligence Agency
the yamminator
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Jumbo Shrimp
Quiet Riot
Freezer Burn
Icy Hot
Alone Together
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Comfortably Numb
Last edited by Target; 10-05-2001 at 12:48 PM.
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terribly helpful
expansion set
sorry, i'm brain dead today
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Did I say that out loud?
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same difference
happily married (lol)
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Thanks for the info. Obviously, I didn't know that
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.
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