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