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Nobody goes to that resturant anymore, it's too crowded

bob sarabia — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:33:32 -0800

Oxymoronica

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:43:10 -0800

Military Intelligence

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:45:08 -0800

How is "near miss" an oxymoron? It was a miss. It was things being near.

By: neilkod

neilkod — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:16:00 -0800

I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous.

By: armage

armage — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:22:23 -0800

By: chrid

chrid — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:22:50 -0800

"Military Intelligence" is not an oxymoron. Describing Military Intelligence as an oxymoron is an amusing joke, but the phrase itself is not one, as the 'Intelligence' referred to is information, not cognitive capacity. The joke refers to the alleged fact that military personnel are not capable of cognitive thought. The joke does not attempt to invalidate the concept that information about an adversary exists. I am neither a military man, nor an advocate of any sort of military action, so I cannot comment further.

By: Bonzai

Bonzai — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:23:15 -0800

Because a "near miss" would be a collision. e.g. "Those two planes nearly missed each other, but then they collided."

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:27:33 -0800

"Oxymoronica" That's a left-handed mouth organ, isn't it?

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:30:12 -0800

It's a miss that is near, in the sense that involves nearness. No problems there. chrid: Are you telling me Groucho Marx is not some bland and sober professor of Logic?

By: chrid

chrid — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:38:47 -0800

Did I say that? I don't think I did. I didn't say that though did I though, though you might have thought that I did. Did I? No, I didn't.

By: philfromhavelock

philfromhavelock — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:49:16 -0800

>AC/DC Unplugged A friend used to play shook me all night long and highway to hell on accoustic guitar. He'd have the room in laughter. French Resistance okay Many of these oxymorons (pretty ugly, good shit) are willfully interpreting the modifier (pretty, good) in its primary definition rather than the intended secondary definition: a - adjective: attractive, aesthetically pleasing, or favourable; b - intensifier: very, extremely. Problems arise when language goes on holiday

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:11:21 -0800

We went over all of this recently where I commented about my own Oxymoron List that, no I still haven't converted to a database. And I tried to explain it all here, so I won't try again. But I'm still waiting for languagehat to contribute his tuppence to this discussion...

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:23:49 -0800

chrid: read subsection titled "The List"; there's a paragraph that goes into the difference between "subjective" and "objective" oxymorons.

By: chrid

chrid — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:41:17 -0800

I shall, and I have the feeling that I shall emerge duly edumacated.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:51:18 -0800

The hardest thing to hide is is something that is not there. --from this page : >

By: chrid

chrid — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:05:55 -0800

chrid: read subsection titled "The List"; there's a paragraph that goes into the difference between "subjective" and "objective" oxymorons. Hey, I already read that bit, it's at the top of the page. Airline food! Haha! The search for pie is one of the chief sources of not pie. Bollocks.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:38:58 -0800

Who wants pie?

By: AwkwardPause

AwkwardPause — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:58:29 -0800

This bollocks pie... it vibrates?