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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: EBarnacle1 Date: 01 Nov 02 - 11:08 AM The Mars Bar is fun size--if you own stock in the company. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,allen woodpecker Date: 01 Nov 02 - 06:26 AM Howz about Fun Size Mars Bars? a.w. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: DG&D Dave Date: 01 Nov 02 - 05:59 AM Social Scientist Physical Chemist Well-person Clinic and in many computer manuals 'This page has intentionaly left blank'? |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: EBarnacle1 Date: 31 Oct 02 - 11:55 AM Creation Science My son and I were at a Chinese restaurant the other evening and I told him he was eating with an oxymoron. "What's an oxymoron" he asked. So I came up with a definition. Now I'll just show him this site. The oxymoron was, of course, "plastic silverware."" |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Genie Date: 30 Oct 02 - 09:36 PM Discussed in another thread: "Algorithm" (Think about it, you Yanks.) Genie |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 30 Oct 02 - 08:31 PM Nigel -- "Oxymora" may, indeed, be the proper plural form of the word. However, it is only used by those who don't realize that an oxymoron is defined as a particularly dim-witted beast of burden.*G* |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Shf Date: 30 Oct 02 - 09:10 AM How about the latest proposal from the EEC I.E United States of Europe. I can think of nowhere more un-united. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,noddy Date: 30 Oct 02 - 07:32 AM rock musician banjo player modern history management decision 95% fat free (the other 5% is 100% FAT) manchester united gold card love triangle |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Bert Date: 29 Oct 02 - 10:39 PM Saw one today, a sign that advertised - FRESH JERKY |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Argenine Date: 21 Jun 02 - 06:20 PM Yeah, Alex, I assumed that's what you meant, but the term "feedback" itself is neutral; the response can be evaluative in a positive or negative sense, or it can merely be instructional or observational [as in, "..the guitar is louder than the vocals on that tape..."]. It's unfortunate that, as you suggest, many people think "feedback" = "criticism" = "a put down." I could say a similar thing about "tough love." It really isn't an oxymoron, as the term was used by the folks who coined the phrase. But too many people nowadays tend to use it to mean "retribution," "zero tolerance," etc. [as in thinking of the death penalty or life imprisonment as "tough love}. Arge |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: mousethief Date: 21 Jun 02 - 06:06 PM Well "feedback" is sometimes used as a synonym for "unpleasant response" -- that's what I had in mind. I assume the ability for technology to become religious is only a while off -- if the artificial intelligence gurus are right (which I am not exactly assured of). Devout atheist -- did I already say that? Alex |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Pean O'Graffey Date: 21 Jun 02 - 06:03 PM Eco-tourism, Lady Thatcher |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Argenine Date: 20 Jun 02 - 09:50 PM "Live Dead" the wit and wisdom of George W Bush [Dan Quayle, etc.] NBC News In Depth Nice poem, Big John! Alex, I assume you're being ironic about "positive feedback." *b* |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: InOBU Date: 18 Jun 02 - 01:03 PM President Bush Larry |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 18 Jun 02 - 03:28 AM Big John -- That poem is wonderful. Shame on you! *BG* |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Wincing Devil Date: 18 Jun 02 - 12:47 AM Iodine Tablets...
How's that Oxymoronic? Moronic maybe... |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Big John Date: 17 Jun 02 - 09:20 PM Iodine Tablets. The GOVERNMENT is sending a FREE packet of Iodine Tablets to every household in Ireland within the next week. Allellluuuiaaa Brethern, we are SAVED. Apparently, if an atomic bomb drops on you, there's no problem - you just rush home, swallow one of these and that's it. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Wincing Devil Date: 17 Jun 02 - 04:52 PM Best Oxymoron So Far!: Religious Technology Lawdie! Save us from Helena Korbin! |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Shields Folk Date: 15 Jun 02 - 08:23 AM no sorry, thats a double negative! |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Shields Folk Date: 15 Jun 02 - 08:22 AM stupid woman! |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: brid widder Date: 15 Jun 02 - 07:41 AM happily married! |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Dead Horse Date: 15 Jun 02 - 02:00 AM Re baseball - World Series Shanty Singer Open Prison Vacant Expression Smart Bomb (unless it explodes and makes you sting slightly) ....(on my starting blocks and ready to run for cover)...Ladies Morris |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Pete Jennings Date: 14 Jun 02 - 02:41 PM English summer. Pete
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: mousethief Date: 14 Jun 02 - 12:00 PM That's just silly, Chicken Charlie. One needn't believe something is true to acknowledge that people study it in a scholarly way. I don't believe in the Roman pantheon, but I acknowledge that there are scholars in Roman Mythology. Alex |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Sir Roger de Beverley Date: 14 Jun 02 - 10:55 AM One I came across recently that only I thought fitted the definition was "highly intelligent fell runner" R |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar Date: 14 Jun 02 - 06:49 AM Definitive version? |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: tremodt Date: 13 Jun 02 - 11:06 PM Park way drive way |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Chicken Charlie Date: 13 Jun 02 - 04:42 PM Accordion music Bible scholar [IMO, of course] Homeless shelter turtle race CC |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Wincing Devil Date: 13 Jun 02 - 01:59 PM Raised to the ground should be spelled "razed" as in what some men do to their face in the morning. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Big John Date: 12 Jun 02 - 09:40 PM The author of this thread has pulled the wool across my eyes/ By using clever diction writing words of such a size/ In Ireland we have oxen and morons by the score/ But to breed an oxymoron it was never done before.// Is this some sort of Mudcat crossbred from a horse and cow/ Or a mule with horns and udder, will someone tell me now?/ Or some such other animal defying Nature's laws/ Or just a contradiction in a verbal sort of clause?// Jeez, I'd love to be as clever as these educated Yanks /Then I'd fill this space with double meaning words and leave no blanks/ But I'm going to have to finish with all this stupid talk/ It's time to take my little oxymoron for a walk. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: mousethief Date: 12 Jun 02 - 05:49 PM free love secular saint loyal opposition ice cream compassionate conservatism worldly innocence good beer ovo-lacto-vegetarian self-righteous sweet wine monetary consideration guilt complex plastic glass standard exemption total partiality steel wool cotton wool sophomore preexisting antebellum fat-free sour cream dairy-free creamer positive feedback |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Slickerbill Date: 12 Jun 02 - 05:38 PM "Guest Host", "raised to the ground" |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: mousethief Date: 12 Jun 02 - 05:26 PM Coincidences can't be ironic? |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 21 Apr 02 - 10:52 PM GUEST,Peter from Essex -- Now, THAT'S an oxymoron!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Peter from Essex Date: 21 Apr 02 - 04:15 PM A friend of mine walked into the wrong room at a venue and really did find himself in the AGM of an anarchist organisation. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Nigel Parsons Date: 21 Apr 02 - 01:16 PM Guest,Chris: is that on oxymoron or an offer ? |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Chris Date: 21 Apr 02 - 08:27 AM Um--casual sex? |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: van lingle Date: 20 Apr 02 - 08:04 PM "President Bush" |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy Date: 20 Apr 02 - 04:36 PM clean dirt english cuisine american justice republican party |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Nigel Parsons Date: 20 Apr 02 - 04:10 PM Modern History |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Ebbie Date: 20 Apr 02 - 12:35 PM New and Improved! |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: van lingle Date: 20 Apr 02 - 08:35 AM No offense, Nigel but your assessment seems fairly unjust. *g* |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,emily b Date: 20 Apr 02 - 08:22 AM Diversified Specialists! This is actually the name of a business here. Emily |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Nigel Parsons Date: 20 Apr 02 - 06:28 AM some of those posting here are "pretty ugly" |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: van lingle Date: 19 Apr 02 - 07:10 PM This thread is awful good. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Hrothgar Date: 19 Apr 02 - 06:42 PM Boxing ring. Literate journalist. |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: DMcG Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:22 PM There is a nursery rhyme that I can't quite remember which includes the directions
Straight down the crooked road (We start 'em young on oxymrons here)
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: GUEST,Nerd Date: 19 Apr 02 - 02:16 PM I think there's plenty of irony in the USA. But then I grew up in New York City, so my experience may not be typical. I do think that people in North America have no very clear idea of what irony is. For example, Alanis Morrisette's song "isn't it ironic?" in fact provides examples of coincidence, not irony. Oxymora: Government worker (or government job) working holiday Home Depot High school senior sophomoric humor |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: Amos Date: 19 Apr 02 - 11:18 AM Oh, okay, McGrath -- pardon my arrant pedantry, up with which I will now put where the sun don't shine!! :>)) A |
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Subject: RE: Oxymorons From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 19 Apr 02 - 11:03 AM Well, if you were being strictly logical, I suppose you could say that fire directed on the enemy when you were under attack could well be described as friendly.
I don't think a phrase can be "apparently oxymoronic" - the appearance is surely what counts in this kind of phrase.
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