BS: what is a Proxymoron?

Subject: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:40 AM

OK fire away 'Catters

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:43 AM

Gis a clue?

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:45 AM

a) Someone too embarassed to be stupid, so they get someone to represent them.
b) Someone sitting too close to a stupid person

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 08:58 AM

I'm reminded of the term "a computer illlegiterate" which, in far-off non-PC (sic) days, we used to describe "a bastard who can't read BASIC"!

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:16 AM

Surely it's a person who gets someone to be stupid on their behalf.. like everyone who votes BNP.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: MMario
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:18 AM

Proxymoron - One who has risen to his level of incompetence not through his own efforts but through the abilities of others.

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 09:41 AM

...the idiot next door?

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Amos
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 10:02 AM

SOmeone you choose to represent you who then contradicts everything you would have said had you been there yourself.


A

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 10:04 AM

not quite a moron

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:07 AM

When a village idiot dies, or goes on holiday, the Proxymoron is the person who acts in loco parentis, till a replacement is found, or said idiot finds his/her way back to their home village.

G.

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Amos
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:12 AM

SO they have one down in Texas, waiting for W?



A

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:29 AM

Here's some more:

TESTICULATING. Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks.

BLAMESTORMING. Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

SEAGULL MANAGER. A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

ASSMOSIS. The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.

CUBE FARM. An office filled with cubicles.

PRAIRIE DOGGING. When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)

SITCOMs. Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".

SINBAD. single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.

PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.

OHNOSECOND. That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')

GOING FOR A McSHIT. Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.

JOHNNY-NO-STARS. A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.

MONKEY BATH. A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go:
"Oo!Oo!Oo! Aa!Aa!Aa!".

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:36 AM

A paid amateurxymoron

or a cheap lapdance

an expensive one would be a proxylesson.

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 11:53 AM

What Lox said!

G



{WTF did he say?]

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:05 PM

A proxymoron is almost, but not quite, a self-contradiction. If "military intelligence" is an oxymoron, "military justice" is a proxymoron.

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:09 PM

Intelligent public relations

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:14 PM

my smartalec wife says a MONKEY BATH is A bath so hot that it turns your bottom red, and you run around howling....

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:20 PM

Sounds like a dominatrix to me. Sorry, didn't mean you wife (unless her name's Spanky Sue!)

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Lox
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:47 PM

hmmm...

A dominatrix Lapdancer ...

The plot thickens!

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Lox
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:50 PM

An expensive one can also sometimes be known as a proxymoroff ...

... but only in Russia ...

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:51 PM

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 08 Apr 08 - 12:52 PM

I think VP Cheney, for example ....

(Good one, Lox.)

CC

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 02:57 AM

SOmeone you choose to represent you who then contradicts everything you would have said had you been there yourself.


No - I think we have a word for that - politician but it is funny.


I had "hoped" but these answers exceed my expectations.

ROTFLMAO.

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Amos
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:43 AM

Just my point, Mister R. Bush, for example, is a complete proxymoron. Obama, much less so. Blair is a proxymoron in schlep's clothing.


A

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 09:47 AM

To schlepp, perchance to dream

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Apr 08 - 02:54 PM

...a really incompetent proctologist!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: theleveller
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 03:33 AM

What's a proctologist?

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 07:36 AM

Thread Hijack - Thread Hijack - Mudelf Police - Mudelf Police!!!

Delete that question this instant!!!

This is an important issue and distracting us with Poctology won't divert us from our path ...

chorus

"WE SHALL NOT WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED" etc ...

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 07:58 AM

Well leveller, that really gets to the bottom of the matter I must say.

G

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: theleveller
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 08:54 AM

I get it; it's someone who sticks his finger up your:

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: theleveller
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 08:57 AM

:)

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: Amos
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 10:30 AM

ALternate definition:

A proxymoron is a stupid person who breathes in your face; or, a person who, whenever he comes close, infects one with the overwhelming dullness of mental inadequacy; or, an individual chosen to represent, stand for, or speak on behalf of human stupidity everywhere. In business, a proxymoron is some hired by the executive board to come to shareholder's meetings and act stupid enough to make the Board look brilliant and humane.


A

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 10:56 AM

Standing next to Walter, we will not be moved!

Walter who?

CC

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 12:59 PM

"a stupid person who breathes in your face"

ROFL

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 01:50 PM

To make it more useful to common parlance we could perhaps settle on -



"An Idiot Who Gets In Your Face!"



We've been in need of a word for that for a long time!

Subject: RE: BS: what is a Proxymoron?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 Apr 08 - 03:41 PM

Someone in favour of xymorons.