Top 50 Oxymorons:
- Act naturally
- Found missing
- Resident alien
- Advanced BASIC
- Genuine imitation
- Airline Food
- Good grief
- Same difference
- Almost exactly
- Government organization
- Sanitary landfill
- Alone together
- Legally drunk
- Silent scream
- British fashion
- Living dead
- Small crowd
- Business ethics
- Soft rock
- Butt Head
- Military Intelligence
- Software documentation
- New York culture
- New classic
- Sweet sorrow
- Childproof
- “Now, then …”
- Synthetic natural gas
- Christian Scientists
- Passive aggression
- Taped live
- Clearly misunderstood
- Peace force
- Extinct Life
- Temporary tax increase
- Computer jock
- Plastic glasses
- Terribly pleased
- Computer security
- Political science
- Tight slacks
- Definite maybe
- Pretty ugly
- Twelve-ounce pound cake
- Diet ice cream
- Rap music
- Working vacation
- Exact estimate
- Religious tolerance
- Microsoft Works
I’m kinda surprised Jumbo Shrimp didn’t make the list… sigh
#22 for sure!
Off topic rant removed.
I’m old enough to remember when the United States of America used to go anywhere to rescue any American that was Trapped anyplace do to any Foreign nation, but that was before the Biden administration was in power.
I am sort of surprise that I have NOT seen (even a reference) to a modern version of a Carter-era bumper sticker:
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
(And please hurry!)
There’s one out here in the West that says “God bless America? America bless GOD!”
Two other bumper stickers:
“Jesus is coming! LOOK BUSY!”
“Jesus is coming! And man, is He PISSED!”
11. b. Sanitary Sewer
I was going to suggest a couple but they made the list, and another was added by you at the end.
All- Thanks, and Sanitary Sewer… ewww…
You forgot Naval Intelligence!
A currency note collector told me that although Confederate notes have been counterfeited at various times to dupe collectors, the Union Army once raided and stole the engraved plates for the Confederate $10 bill. They took them to the U S. mint and printed about $9 million in “unauthorized” currency, which was to be injected into the Confederate economy to cause local hyper-inflations and other disruptions. As opposed to notes created to defraud collectors, the Union-made notes are known as “Genuine Counterfeits.”
51. Organized fandom
I believe in Living Dead, but it is a verb, not an adjective.
It’s when you realize you are not getting out alive and act accordingly.
What we we do without writer searching for ideas?
I once saw in a store “Genuine Imitation Artificial Crab Meat”.