Oxymorons

[Squirls]

Chatting to a friend on the phone earlier we were having a bit of a laugh about oxymorons such as:

Good grief
True replica
Airline food
Christian scientist
Postal Service
Reality TV
and Microsoft works

Can anyone think of any others to make us giggle? I'm sure there are loads much funnier than mine :) .

[MisterHobgoblin]

Not sure "airline food" is an oxymoron:


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Military intelligence might be, though.

[jfp]

Dare I contribute "American English"?

[Squirls]

How about tight slacks

[Elfstar]

Military/army intelligence was my first thought especially as my bf has just joined the army and some of the stuff that has happened in his basic is ludicrous.

Bitter sweet is one of my faves.

[Calliope]

Microsoft Works.(I was going to delete this because I see you're already included it but I've been fighting with my pooter today so it can be here twice ;) )

Modern history.

Hard liquor (unless it's a frozen margarita I suppose --- yummmmmm)

[gg106]

Home work

[My Friend Jack]

Marketing Intelligence (but you have to know people who make their living in sales & marketing to understand)

Rap music

[Mazarin]

Birth control
Adult male
;)

[Squirls]

Adult male
;)whooooooOOOOooooo [holds up little pink hand-bag]<HOLDS handbag pink little up>

How about Labour Party or Conservative Party. (I remember asking my dad when I was a little kid why do they call themselves parties when they don't seem much like fun)

[Tay]

How about Labour Party or Conservative Party. (I remember asking my dad when I was a little kid why do they call themselves parties when they don't seem much like fun)

Apologies for deviation from the thread topic but the above reminded me of something I read in a book by John Simpson. He was talking about the Blair Government and quoted some lines Groucho Marx used in Duck Soup.

The last man nearly ruined this place
He didn't know what to do with it
If you think this country's bad off now
Just wait till I get through with it.

No one's allowed to smoke
or tell a dirty joke
and whistling is prohibited

If chewing gum is chewed
the chewer is pursued
and the hooigan is hidden

If any form of pleasure is exhibited
report it to me and it will be prohibited

I'll put my foot down, so it shall be
this is the land of the free.

Hope that answers your question about the partys not having fun! :)

[Wolfy]

I thought i might add some

Pretty Dirty
Jumbo Shrimp
Plastic Silverware
Working Vacation

[megustaleer]

Plastic SilverwareThis one doesn't work so well in the UK, as we don't call our knives and forks etc 'silverware'.
Mostly, I think, we call it 'cutlery' if we want a general term for all the different eating utensils.

[Wolfy]

Wasn't aware of that

Just thought of these ones:

A little big
acting naturally

[lunababymoonchild]

My particular favourite is :

charm offensive

[nonsuch]

Football Academy
Living Sculpture

[Squirls]

massless particles

[nonsuch]

Dead Slow
Radio Show
Ballet Workshop
Science Fiction

[Radders]

Old boy

[nonsuch]

hard liquor
seriously funny