What's your favorite oxymoron?

[Deja Q]

"oversexed". It's amusing how a term with "over" as a prefix is used to describe a person who doesn't get enough. :D

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. Free Will Baptist Church

If you're a baptist, all free will is gone. Oh and Compassionate Conservative. :puke:
Duckie

[LeFleur1]

2. Oxymorons

Military Intelligence

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. Compassionate Conservative.

:puke:

[billyskank]

4. I got called a heartbreaker here once

I haven't had any in four years, and I'm a heartbreaker? x(

[GirlinContempt]

8. ANY?!

[billyskank]

15. True blue

[GirlinContempt]

17. Holy smokes

:hug:

[billyskank]

18. Thanks

you get used to it. :hug:

[mokawanis]

5. microsoft works

sometimes it doesn't work at all

[laheina]

50. LOL

Quite often, in fact. :)

[NNadir]

6. I can't call them "favorites" but all Bushista environmental programs

have oxymoronic names.

"Healthy forests" is their forest removal program for example.

"Clear Skies" is their coal initiative.

[nytemare]

24. Yes, and let's not forget "No Child Left Behind."

That one has celebrated tremendous success.

[LaurenG]

7. Jumbo Shrimo is a good one nt

[Deja Q]

36. Who's Shrimo, and can I meet him too?

:7

[LaurenG]

38. lol - ohhhh by the time I noticed it I couldn't fix it . It should say

Shrimp :rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

9. Shouldn't that be "oxymoran"?

:P

[Crazy Dave]

10. Honest Politician and Compassionate Conservatism.

It's a tie between those two for me.

[LaraMN]

11. Oxy moron.

[RevCheesehead]

13. GMTA, Lara.

:)

[LaraMN]

23. Straight up, Rev!

For you: a creepy doll, of love.:rofl:

[RevCheesehead]

32. Now you've gone and done it ...

It's time for Doll Wars!

[LaraMN]

33. Don't say I didn't warn ya',

Ready to tag-team Coulter:
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen (and dog.)

[SteppingRazor]

how 'bout army intelligence? Or journalism ethics? n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. I really fucking resent the second one (n.t)

[SteppingRazor]

58. I'm a journalist. I'm allowed to make fun of us.

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

63. So am I, and I think you should keep it in the newsroom

Many people won't catch the sarcasm and it just fans the flames. We've got enough image problems without feeding them from in-house.

[SteppingRazor]

65. Aw, don't be so sensitive...

There's plenty of good guys out there, granted, but even though this was a joke, we do live in the Golden Age of Media Mediocrity. If we've got an image problem -- and I agree that we do -- I think, perhaps, it lies with us to change our ways. That said, I think the problem with modern journalism is linked to both the media and the audience. As long as we're a for-profit, publicly traded business, we'll be in trouble. And as long as the public consistently proves the old credo "If it bleeds, it leads," we're also in trouble.

But this is getting pretty heavy for what was a very light-hearted thread. So, I'll just say mea culpa and be on my way. Cheers! :toast:

[RevCheesehead]

12. That would have to be Oxycontin Rush.

On sooooo many levels. :evilgrin:

[Wapsie B]

14. You mean besides Fiscal Conservatism?

:rofl:

[michreject]

16. Moral majority

they are neither.

[Montauk6]

19. Smart bomb

Well???

Ever see one balance a check book? Figure out a bus schedule?

I rest my case.

[Montauk6]

20. Guest-host

[SiobhanClancy]

21. Genuine imitation

also "semi-boneless ham". That has never made any sense to me.

[enigami]

22. Military Intelligence ...of course

[billyskank]

27. Not to mention military music

:)

[av8rdave]

25. Nonstop flight

It sure as hell better stop somewhere!

I think Carlin came up with that one.

[Benfea]

26. Scientific Creationism

Interestingly enough, when they were forced to change the name, they chose another oxymoron: "intelligent design."

[Orsino]

28. Favorite Oxymoron" is mine. n/t

[graywarrior]

29. President Elect Bush

[Rowdyboy]

30. Peacekeeper missiles

[Bzzzz]

31. Casual Sex or

legally drunk :crazy:

[jakefrep]

34. Conservative Thinktank

[Dukkha]

35. Business Casual

Nothing I can wear at work is what I'd consider "casual"

[Radical Activist]

39. President-elect Bush

Only used for a short time, but very oxymoronical.

[XemaSab]

40. Greater Pewee

[La Lioness Priyanka]

41. compassionate conservatism

clean air act
patriot act
intelligent design

[hfojvt]

45. why is intelligent design an oxymoron?

is it just because life is "a tale told by an idiot, full of noise and confusion, signifying nothing?" Or is it that it is an unintelligent theory. That makes the name contradictory to reality but not, in itself oxymoronic.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

46. yes. good point.

i think once i wrote compassionate conservatism the rest started flowing in quiet rage and are not really oxymorons

[mikeytherat]

62. Intelligent Design is more of an unnecessary modifier than an oxymoron

Design implies intelligence, therefore they should just use "Intelligence" or "Design" but NOT intelligent design - that's redundant. It is important to remember that, though intelligence is implied in Design, that does not ensure competence (if my cats could design a bike, even a really crappy bike, that would imply intelligence, but maybe not competence - though I am certain MY cats would design an excellent bike!). I think this is why they chose the term Intelligent Design, though what they meant was Competent Design.

mikey_the_rat

[NMMNG]

42. Christian Right

Compassionate Conservativism

[FuzzySlippers]

43. ...

[sakabatou]

44. smart bush

[Common Sense Party]

47. "Water Landing"

Should the aircraft need to make an emergency "water landing"...

You mean 'the plane crashes into the freakin' ocean and sinks.'

[hfojvt]

48. has anybody mentioned

"war on terror"?

that's like a "napalm fire extinguisher".

[laheina]

49. That's a good one.

War on terror, I mean.

It's also a passe cliche. :)

[meegbear]

51. Fox News

[AirmensMom]

52. Local long distance.

:shrug:

[RetroLounge]

53. Happily Married

:D

RL

[ThomCat]

67. I am SO surprised you're not feeling any heat for that one.

Wow.

:popcorn:

[kwassa]

54. Plastic glass

[Radio_Guy]

55. Reagan Memoirs

He sure couldn't seem to remember shit during the Iran Contra mess. Remembered less toward the end of his life.

[LynneSin]

56. President George W. Bush

:puke:

[redwitch]

57. extra money

nt

[KitchenWitch]

59. Vegetarian Meats

[kwassa]

60. Thunderous silence

[book lady]

61. almost perfect

[slide to the left]

64. cable news

rush hour
Christian Right - people that know the Bible know it leans left

[Shell Beau]

66. smartass

[Ron Mexico]

68. Pretty ugly.

I don't know why, but this one just kills me :)