Post your favorite Oxymoron!

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  1. Enelle Lamb profile image72
    Enelle Lambposted 13 years ago

    An oxymoron is a figure of speech that is self-contradictory - such as "a fine mess" and "a little pregnant"
    Here is my personal favorite:
    new and improved!

    1. profile image0
      Baileybearposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      pure evil

  2. knolyourself profile image58
    knolyourselfposted 13 years ago

    "American Thinker".

  3. Maembe profile image60
    Maembeposted 13 years ago

    Women's Basketball

    Just kidding, that wasn't nice.

  4. paradigmsearch profile image59
    paradigmsearchposted 13 years ago

    Ethical “___________” (fill in blank). smile

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      Baileybearposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      here's one that was in the title of a thread:

      innocent religions

      1. paradigmsearch profile image59
        paradigmsearchposted 13 years agoin reply to this

        I remember that one! lol

  5. Kangaroo_Jase profile image77
    Kangaroo_Jaseposted 13 years ago

    Best Indecision

  6. Charles James profile image67
    Charles Jamesposted 13 years ago

    Army Intelligence

    1. Enelle Lamb profile image72
      Enelle Lambposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I almost chose that one!

    2. Bellamie profile image61
      Bellamieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      hey! 

      go army!!

  7. Richieb799 profile image74
    Richieb799posted 13 years ago

    Loitering with Intent? that's one that my boss said and I thought the 2 words contradict each other lol

  8. bojanglesk8 profile image59
    bojanglesk8posted 13 years ago

    "Pretty ugly"

  9. theseus profile image71
    theseusposted 13 years ago

    bitter sweet revenge

  10. profile image0
    mtsi1098posted 13 years ago

    jumbo shrimp

  11. Kangaroo_Jase profile image77
    Kangaroo_Jaseposted 13 years ago

    'Parting is such sweet, sorrow' - Shakespeare

  12. Kangaroo_Jase profile image77
    Kangaroo_Jaseposted 13 years ago

    My favourite number us blue, my favourite colour is 3 and my favourite number is X.

  13. Sweetsusieg profile image75
    Sweetsusiegposted 13 years ago

    Politically Correct - Anything political cannot be correct... Just a thought...

    1. Enelle Lamb profile image72
      Enelle Lambposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      lol I like that one

    2. wilderness profile image93
      wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Much along the lines of an "honest politician", isn't it?

  14. Enelle Lamb profile image72
    Enelle Lambposted 13 years ago

    Almost done

  15. Rochelle Frank profile image92
    Rochelle Frankposted 13 years ago

    "Hitler" -- oh, wait-a-minit, he was a Nazimoron.

    1. RedElf profile image88
      RedElfposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      big_smilebig_smilebig_smilebig_smilebig_smile

  16. Enelle Lamb profile image72
    Enelle Lambposted 13 years ago

    A fine mess

  17. TheNicheBlog profile image59
    TheNicheBlogposted 13 years ago

    Perfectly alright...

  18. theseus profile image71
    theseusposted 13 years ago

    Living dead

  19. theseus profile image71
    theseusposted 13 years ago

    Alone in a crowd

    1. Druid Dude profile image61
      Druid Dudeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      actually not an oxymoron. Been there. Anyone else?

  20. CWanamaker profile image94
    CWanamakerposted 13 years ago

    Jumbo Shrimp!

  21. RedElf profile image88
    RedElfposted 13 years ago

    government initiative

  22. RedElf profile image88
    RedElfposted 13 years ago

    Here's another favorite government silliness - a few years ago our government changed the name of Unemployment Insurance to:

    Employment Insurance - sounds like it should insure that you are always employed - yes? - but, of course, you only collect once you are unemployed big_smilebig_smilebig_smile

  23. FranyaBlue profile image75
    FranyaBlueposted 13 years ago

    plus size skinny jeans

    1. Druid Dude profile image61
      Druid Dudeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Bad Intelligence. Used by the Bush admin. Actually is a doublespeak word for stupidity. Which brings me to another not so oxy oxymoron. Hurry up and wait.

  24. theseus profile image71
    theseusposted 13 years ago

    only choice smile

  25. superwags profile image66
    superwagsposted 13 years ago

    Today:

    "Working from home"

  26. Bellamie profile image61
    Bellamieposted 13 years ago

    that's the long and short of it.

  27. Dale Nelson profile image37
    Dale Nelsonposted 13 years ago

    bumblebee tuna

  28. BobbiRant profile image61
    BobbiRantposted 13 years ago

    New and Improved

  29. rbe0 profile image60
    rbe0posted 12 years ago

    Dark Enlightenment

  30. Rosie2010 profile image67
    Rosie2010posted 12 years ago

    open secret

  31. jesimpki profile image90
    jesimpkiposted 12 years ago

    Microsoft Works
    Not their operating system, just the productivity suite by the same name.

  32. ptosis profile image67
    ptosisposted 12 years ago

    Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

  33. Patty Inglish, MS profile image89
    Patty Inglish, MSposted 12 years ago

    Some favorites, especially the first -

    Accidentally on purpose
    Original replica
    Questionable answer
    Altogether separate

  34. janesix profile image59
    janesixposted 12 years ago

    President Obama

 
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