Your favorite Oxymoron

[Perfection]

God Damned Albertans, no respect whatsoever. (Flips SBI the bird)

You sure seem to be the embodiement of respect...

 

[Mise]

Oxymoron of the Day

Trekkie Humor

Whoopah, in the face!

 

[Quasar1011]

"Good grief." -Charlie Brown

 

[10Seven]

'Positive discrimination'

 

[Leonel]

'Nazi Hippy'

 

[YNCS]

Military Intelligence is probably my favourite.

I've always considered this statement to be obnoxious, condescending, and just plain wrong.

Having actually worked in military intelligence, I can assure everyone that it is not an oxymoron. I worked in military intelligence for several years. It is neither an oxymoron nor a group of incompetents telling the leadership what they want to hear. Military intelligence people are quite carefully selected, undergo very rigorous and periodic personal investigation, and are given a free rein to develop information vital to the nation's defense. I'm quite proud of the fact that I was involved in intelligence.

 

[Cu Chulainn]

I've always considered this statement to be obnoxious, condescending, and just plain wrong.

Having actually worked in military intelligence, I can assure everyone that it is not an oxymoron. I worked in military intelligence for several years. It is neither an oxymoron nor a group of incompetents telling the leadership what they want to hear. Military intelligence people are quite carefully selected, undergo very rigorous and periodic personal investigation, and are given a free rein to develop information vital to the nation's defense. I'm quite proud of the fact that I was involved in intelligence.

Yes, but no one ever sees you guys, all we ever see around campus are the obnoxious superior acting marine types who appear to be lacking brain cells or at least a free will. They never smile and take themselves way too seriously. One time a few years ago some guys played a practical joke on the marine on our floor and the guy lost his composure and stormed off spitting insults behind him. Honestly its guys like him that give the military an antisocial pigheaded and stupid reputation.

 

[Sims2789]

Military Intelligence is probably my favourite.

Also pretty ugly, plastic glasses, only choice, unbiased opinion and larger half are good ones.

Pretty ugly isn't an oxymoron, as pretty has two meanings: "attractive" and "very".

I absolutely HATE it whenever people misuse the word "literally", as they commonly do, for example:
"Like, oh my God, that guy was so like hot I like literally died!"

I also find it wonderfully oxymoronic when people, mostly people around here, misspell words like "stupid" and "idiotic" when applying them to others.

That's irony, not an oxymoron!

 

[Sims2789]

American culture has to be one of my favorite non-partisan oxymorons.

 

[Mario Feldberg]

leftist intellectual

 

[Sims2789]

My favorite partisan ones:

Compassionate conservative
Progressive conservative
Communist state

 

[Narz]

Humanely Slaughtered

 

[FearlessLeader2]

"Dr. Poole was right!! You're an ox, and a moron!!"

honest politician
liberal intelligentsia
papal infallibility
customer service

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Some more I found

act naturally
airline food
educational television
even odds
exact estimate
fish farm
found missing
jumbo shrimp
liquid gas
old news
plastic glasses
postal service
rolling stop
virtual reality

 

[carlosMM]

Homo sapiens

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Umm... what is an oxymoron?

 

[The Last Conformist]

A two-part word or phrase where the parts are mutually exclusive.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

OK... what's mutually exclusive?

 

[The Last Conformist]

You're joking, aren't you?

 

[mitsho]

they exclued each other. If the first one is true, the other one can't be. And the other way round. Say, you think (just an example ) the Americans are all just plain stupid, and you say 'intelligent American'. That'd be an oxymoron. Or 'active Swiss' (to give another example and to show that I do not inted to bash Americans, because I also bash myself... )

mfG mitsho