What's your favorite oxymoron ?

Lamplighter • Nov 28, 2010 11:59 am
At the zoo in Victoria, BC:


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Sundae • Nov 28, 2010 12:03 pm
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.
Lamplighter • Nov 28, 2010 2:51 pm
Yes SG, I know.

Military intelligence is the usual example, but I also like puns and quirks.
Sundae • Nov 28, 2010 3:23 pm
In that case I give you premature ejaculation.
Undertoad • Nov 28, 2010 4:33 pm
You certainly do.






(j/k J)
LibsKillBabies • Nov 28, 2010 10:22 pm
liberal compassion

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Gravdigr • Nov 29, 2010 4:08 am
Oxymoron?

Honest politician.

You're welcome.
Trilby • Nov 29, 2010 6:23 am
Jumbo Shrimp.

Civil War.
Sundae • Nov 29, 2010 8:36 am
American Cuisine (snicker)

Friendly fire
Trilby • Nov 29, 2010 10:20 am
Sundae Girl;696962 wrote:
American Cuisine (snicker)


oooo...that stings!
Sundae • Nov 29, 2010 10:51 am
I nearly changed it to British Cuisine (the way I first heard it) but it conforms to a widely held belief that is so outdated and unfair that I couldn't bring myself to do it.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:
BigV • Nov 29, 2010 11:15 am
"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".
Undertoad • Nov 29, 2010 11:19 am
Hee hee, I've gotten into the habit of saying "yeah yeah" instead of just the single yeah, to indicate stronger agreement.
skysidhe • Nov 29, 2010 11:26 am
Because of regional ethnicity in the U.S. It is true that there really isn't an "American Cuisine"
Sundae • Nov 29, 2010 11:27 am
No-but-yeah-but-no-but
Long clip - you'll get the picture quite quickly.
[youtube]PoIgs7QLCp0[/youtube]
GunMaster357 • Nov 29, 2010 11:30 am
Honest Politician.
classicman • Nov 29, 2010 12:35 pm
skysidhe;697007 wrote:
Because of regional ethnicity in the U.S. It is true that there really isn't an "American Cuisine"


There are many regional American cuisines.
skysidhe • Nov 29, 2010 2:59 pm
classicman;697020 wrote:
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
Spexxvet • Nov 29, 2010 3:15 pm
Compassionate conservative
Gravdigr • Nov 29, 2010 5:50 pm
Sundae Girl;696962 wrote:
American Cuisine (snicker)


Said the chick from England.:p:
Sundae • Nov 30, 2010 7:54 am
Sundae Girl;696993 wrote:
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.

Gravdigr;697065 wrote:
Said the chick from England.:p:

:p:
Urbane Guerrilla • Nov 30, 2010 3:43 pm
Spexxvet;697049 wrote:
Compassionate conservative


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:
BigV • Nov 30, 2010 4:00 pm
"Of course"

It is the central aspect of your charm.
Urbane Guerrilla • Nov 30, 2010 4:20 pm
[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
monster • Nov 30, 2010 5:41 pm
:bogroll:
classicman • Nov 30, 2010 9:41 pm
I must say UG - That was one of your more readable posts.
skysidhe • Dec 4, 2010 11:35 am
catastrophic success
Sundae • Dec 4, 2010 1:26 pm
Australian foreplay :)
Urbane Guerrilla • Dec 6, 2010 12:35 am
A widely told joke has the Australian stacking the furniture to get enough floor space.
Gravdigr • Dec 6, 2010 3:43 am
"Sickly sweet" always struck me as oxymoronic.
Shawnee123 • Dec 6, 2010 10:55 am
voluntarily banned

unequivocally uncertain
footfootfoot • Dec 6, 2010 11:10 am
Sundae Girl;698338 wrote:
Australian foreplay :)

"Brace yourself, Sheila"
TheMercenary • Dec 6, 2010 1:13 pm
That was funny. :D
Gravdigr • Dec 6, 2010 6:12 pm
re: foreplay

John Mendoza:

My girlfriend told me she likes 45 minutes of foreplay. I asked her "45 Minutes?! Does that include the drive over?"
Nirvana • Dec 6, 2010 9:02 pm
Rupaul :)
wolf • Dec 7, 2010 1:58 am
Mental Health.
Lamplighter • Dec 9, 2010 2:00 pm
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
Sundae • Dec 9, 2010 2:07 pm
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.
Scriveyn • Dec 9, 2010 3:12 pm
wolf;698751 wrote:
Mental Health.


:lol2:
capnhowdy • Dec 9, 2010 8:44 pm
Pretty sure

or

Almost positive.
Shawnee123 • Dec 9, 2010 8:51 pm
Country music
Pico and ME • Dec 9, 2010 9:20 pm
Shawnee123;699191 wrote:
Country music


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Shawnee123 • Dec 9, 2010 9:21 pm
Well...

:)
footfootfoot • Dec 9, 2010 9:24 pm
boxybony oxymoronie
Griff • Dec 10, 2010 8:08 am
Shawnee123;699191 wrote:
Country music


Well played.
monster • Dec 10, 2010 9:29 am
Pico and ME;699207 wrote:
Image


^wss
footfootfoot • Dec 10, 2010 10:23 am
Well, modern country music, like c&w, yes. But "roots" country is really great:
[YOUTUBE]JczEyQHBLEw[/YOUTUBE]
Shawnee123 • Dec 10, 2010 10:39 am
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!