Oxymoron of the Millennium

President Reagan.


“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”
“Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?”

  • Shakespeare, I Henry IV

Responsible Liberal

Russian Intelligence


The IQ of a group is equal to the IQ of the dumbest member divided by the number of people in the group.

Corporate downsizing


“The saurians had no strange wine, no imagination, and they became extinct. And you don’t look so terrific yourself.” -Harlan Ellison

Liberal

One-word oxymorons :wink:

How about “Labor Day.”

Celebrated in true union style by not working.

Maybe it’s not an oxymoron.

Sports scholarship

I went to undergrad at a school in Southern California called Occidental College, “Oxy” for short.

Accordingly, the term “oxymoron” is itself an, er, oxymoron.

-Melin

Pace Salsa


JB
Lex Non Favet Delicatorum Votis

Civil servant (like the Holy Roman Empire, the Irish Elk, and the Moral Majority, it is none of the above)

AOL Help Desk

An oldie but a goodie

“Military Intelligence”

Shadowfox
“Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with
great ambitions.”

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

How about Redundant Phrase of the Millennium?

One Year Anniversary.

Jumbo shrimp

How about…

Jumbo shrimp
Rap music


Virtually yours,

J Matrix

Mr. Quayle,presidential candidate.

Hospital food

This has been done before, but what the heck - here it is again:
posted 08-15-1999 01:19 AM

Oxymorons:
Army Intelligence
Neo-classic
Deafening silence
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

And how about spoonerisms:
“He’s a real fart smeller.”
“…a bunch of cunning runts.”
“I think you have it bass-ackwards.”
A fellow named Sheb Wooley used to do parodies of stories under the name of “Ben Colder”; the one that immediately comes to mind is “Beeping Sleauty and the Pansome Hrince”, but he did several take-offs.

And here are some examples of malapropism:
“I think that it’s a mute point.”
“Don’t take that fellow for granite.”

And then there are some expressions that could have come out of the mouth of Yogi Berra:
“Never eat on an empty stomach.”
“You’re skating on thin water.”

No wucken furries mate