What's your favorite oxymoron ?
 

At the zoo in Victoria, BC:

While still trying to decide whether to call you on a technicality re albino peacock being an oxymoron when it is a factual statement...

... I learned the word from a rather cheeky tutor.
Who told us that the correct pronunciation was ox-ZIMMER-on. Not knowing any different, I used that for years. I'm still hesitant over using it in conversation, likewise ZOOG-ma and hy-PER-bol-ee. So thanks Jerry, you fucked me right over there.

Oh, nice cock btw.

Yes SG, I know.

Military intelligence is the usual example, but I also like puns and quirks.

In that case I give you premature ejaculation.

You certainly do.






(j/k J)

Oxymoron?

Honest politician.

You're welcome.

Jumbo Shrimp.

Civil War.

American Cuisine (snicker)

Friendly fire

oooo...that stings!

I nearly changed it to British Cuisine (the way I first heard it) but it conforms to a widely held belief that is so outdated and unfair that I couldn't bring myself to do it. So you got it instead, even though I know it's not true.

Even if I'm saying this to Ms Cheese Dip Quote :p:

"Yeah, no."

Heard in conversation all the time. I don't know about the "oxy" part, but every time I hear this I think "moron".

Hee hee, I've gotten into the habit of saying "yeah yeah" instead of just the single yeah, to indicate stronger agreement.

Because of regional ethnicity in the U.S. It is true that there really isn't an "American Cuisine"

No-but-yeah-but-no-but
Long clip - you'll get the picture quite quickly.

Honest Politician.

There are many regional American cuisines.

I think you'll be able to appreciate this, Classic

Harold Stephens attempts to discover true American cuisine.

http://www.frugalfun.com/amernatlfood.html

Compassionate conservative

Said the chick from England.:p:

:p:

Progressive liberal, of course.

Actually, my favorite oxymoron is the one which aptly gores whichever blockhead I'm chewing out.

I have more compassion for poor Spexxvet than he'd ever imagine. This doesn't stop me from figuring his stereotyped ideology and viewpoint is by degrees reducing him to a clueless imbecile, but I sorrow for his self-chosen state. From time to time I mention things that would improve him were he to accept them -- they come under the heading of him needing to be broader minded, and to stop looking for evil in all the wrong places. That's as fruitless as looking for love that way. Of course, I congratulate me for having chosen a better course.:cool:

"Of course"

It is the central aspect of your charm.

[UG dimples prettily] (if anyone can tell under the beard)

It's a simple process, and one often repeated here. Been that way for years.

1) Someone spouts an unthought-out or imbecilic remark
2) I torment him for entertaining so low quality a thought or such a paucity of valuable values
3) He tries to tell me I can't think, which is a heck of a note from some guy who was thinking so awfully in the first place
4) It dawns on him that he has now become even less impressive and more pitiable and clueless than earlier
5) I practically never refrain from helping him to this uncomfortable realization and I often tell him it is "liberal" ideology that has sunk him up to his neck
6) He finds he can't lay a glove on me because he does not know what he is at
7) Wrath, sputtering, and face-saving blather on his part may ensue

:bogroll:

I must say UG - That was one of your more readable posts.

catastrophic success

Australian foreplay :)

A widely told joke has the Australian stacking the furniture to get enough floor space.

"Sickly sweet" always struck me as oxymoronic.

voluntarily banned

unequivocally uncertain

"Brace yourself, Sheila"

That was funny. :D

re: foreplay

John Mendoza:

Rupaul :)

Mental Health.

I came across this as a word new to me, so I looked it up in the dictionary:

hagiography
derogatory adulatory writing about another person

That word is a staple of the British Press. They often like to suggest that the person being written about doesn't merit a biography, thereby damning both the author and subject by use of the word.

A "puff piece" is the shorter equivilant.

:lol2:

Pretty sure

or

Almost positive.

Country music

Well...

:)

boxybony oxymoronie

Well played.

^wss

Well, modern country music, like c&w, yes. But "roots" country is really great:

Agreed, absolutely.

Today's stuff is all hats and fluff. Taylor Swift can't carry a tune in a bucket, so they market her as country (even though her songs sound decidedly prepubescent pop to me.) So many like that...it's all the same. Bleh.

But I'll take some Patsy Cline. I'll take some Waylon and Willie. Hank Sr, sure!