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Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:04 am
by jps
This isn't exactly an oxymoron, but, there is a town east of Cleveland called Hunting Valley with a greeting sign that says "Hunting Valley, No Hunting"!

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:42 am
by shamustwin
Free love.

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:36 pm
by johnallg
jps wrote:This isn't exactly an oxymoron, but, there is a town east of Cleveland called Hunting Valley with a greeting sign that says "Hunting Valley, No Hunting"!
Hahaha!!!!!!!!! Figures.
shamustwin wrote:Free love.
That's a true one! :wink:

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:25 am
by RutleDirk
From a "refinish your gee-tar" posting on another site:

"Genius with a spraycan"

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:26 am
by RutleDirk
"Old School Rap"
That's gotta be at least three oxymorons!

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:16 pm
by antipodean
Seen last week in suburban Sydney - an industrial garbage skip hanging off the back of a truck with the label "Heritage Skips".

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:01 pm
by wmthor
Okay John, I'll post it here too! :lol:
johnallg wrote:
wmthor wrote:signed, Your Friendly Tax Auditor :roll: :roll: :roll:
William, doesn't that belong in the oxymoron thread? :lol: I know it is true in your case, but in general..... :twisted:

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:13 am
by doctorwho
I had to resurrect this thread because I just read in a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP, an FDA-reviewable document which is supposed to be written in impeccable English!) this gem:
... a pattern of randomness ...
:lol: :lol:

(What's even funnier [or frightening?!] is that a bunch of people actually signed that they had "read and understood" this SOP ... :? :roll: )

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:18 pm
by johnallg
Good one, Gary. Kinda like organized chaos.

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:42 am
by marc61
How about the fact that we drive on a parkway, and park in a driveway?

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:54 am
by jingle_jangle
Isn't that one of George Carlin's? :wink:

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:14 am
by melibreits
lets see, oxymorons, these come to mind...

Military intelligence

Postal Service

Internal Revenue Service

Presidential pardon

State Representitive

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:07 pm
by marc61
jingle_jangle wrote:Isn't that one of George Carlin's? :wink:

Probably so, and stolen by many a comedian, but I just love that one

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:48 pm
by simer4001
Back orders filled

Re: POST YOUR OXYMORONS HERE

Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:25 am
by doctorwho
"filled with emptiness"