OXYMORONS

[Guest Viewmaster]

Time for a little levity around here. Jumbo Shrimp is one oxymoron that quickly comes to mind for many people. Down Escalator, Small Miracle, Terribly Cute, and Pretty Ugly are some of my personal favorites/annoyances. Yours?

[Guest DickHo]

Versatile Top

[Guest JON1265]

Why do we "drive on a parkway" and "park in a driveway?"

[Donnie]

Dick Ho

[BewareofNick]

You know, I promised to be good and here you are dangling carrots in front of me...

[Guest cp8036]

happily married

military intelligence

[Guest Zach DC]

Holy War

[Guest dstud4hire]

"Open 24 hour" businesses that have locks on their doors. ok, that's sorta an oxymoron, in a very loose definition of the word. Gabe in St. Louis

[N.N.]

United Nations

Rap music

[Guest cp8036]

Pleasant surprize

Bien fao

[Will]

shrimp scampi

 

gay community

[Guest soccerstud]

Oxymoron:

President Bush.

 

Or is it just moron?

[Guest JT]

Business Ethics

 

Honest Politicians

[Guest cp8036]

Or "homemade" food prepared and served at a restaurant.

[Guest cmp]

I stumbled upon the Web site of a restaurant advertising "Excellent English Cuisine". It's a matter of personal taste, but after visiting England several times, I find this one by far the most hilarious of all.

[Traveller]

>Business Ethics

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Liberal Intelligentsia

 

Later.

[Guest JT]

Compassionate Conservatives

[CT Dick]

Re: open 24 hours. Your mention reminded me that when I was growing up in Hartford, Maxwell Drugs was open 24 hours. For some reason they needed to close and couldn't find the key. They had to call in a locksmith.

 

Dick

[+ Charlie]

How about "AOL service"?

[Guest Les]

Free Gift

 

Not exactly an oxymoron...but close enough.

 

Take care, Les;)

[+ deej]

>Why do we "drive on a parkway" and "park in a driveway?"

 

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?

[Guest 7Zach]

I thought aol service was pure oxy...same as the phrase on the french menus, which is what you get...service francaise

[Guest tmbg]

My oxymoron for this thread is, Civil War

 

And for a little word play, just to spice things up, here are a few words spelled backwards. Obviously, whoever created english had a strange sense of humor.

 

live - evil

lived - devil

 

And the not so amusing,

 

not - ton

now - won

star - rats

stop - pots

pot - top

 

And so on.

 

Cheers! Ritchie

[Guest jeremyred18]

Anorexically obese

 

No it isn't a real word but I made it up and I like it}>

[Guest pressyourluck]

I remember thinking up some for an English class assignment.

Ones that I remembered and liked:

Civil War

Microsoft Works

Deafening Silence

Broken Alliance

Almost Exactly

Blocked Passage

Living Fossil

Bittersweet

Ill Health

Clearly Confused

Old News

Even Odds

Only Some

Passive Aggressive ...

and my favorite ...

 

:'( Sad Clown