John's Jokes: Oxymorons
- Ancient Greek:
- Oxus = "sharp"
- Moros = "dull"
- "Oxymoron" = a sharp dullness or a foolish wise.
- ...a self contradicting phrase.
- Acid Rain
- Act Naturally
- Adult male
- Advanced BASIC
- Airline Food
- A Little Big
- Almost Done
- Almost Exactly
- Almost Perfect
- Almost Ready (also Not Quite Finished)
- Alone Together
- Amateur Expert
- Anti-Missile Missile
- Art Director
- Artificial Grass
- Awfully Good (also Terribly Good)
- Baby Grand
- Band Jocks
- Barely Dressed
- Bathing Suit
- Bittersweet
- Black Light
- Brief Survey
- British Fashion
- Business Ethics
- Butt Head
- Cafeteria Food
- California Culture
- Calm Wind
- Catdog
- Cautiously Optimistic
- Cheerleading Scholarship
- Childproof
- Christian Scientists
- Civil Servant
- Civil War
- Clearly Misunderstood
- Comfortable High Heels
- Commercial Art
- Computer Jock
- Computer Security
- Convergent Evolution
- Congressional Ethics
- Conspicuous Absence
- Corporate Culture
- Country Music
- Criminal Justice
- Crisis Management
- Curved Line
- Deafening Silence
- Death Benefits
- Definite Maybe
- Diet Ice Cream
- Divorce Court
- Dodge Ram
- Doing Nothing
- Double Solitaire
- Down Escalator
- Dressy Casual
- Dry Ice
- Dry Wine
- Dull Shine
- Elementary Calculus
- Evaporated Milk
- Even Odds
- Exact Estimate
- Extinct Life Form
- Extra Time
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Fast Food
- Fast Idle
- Firm Maybe
- First Annual
- Fish Farm
- Found Missing
- Freezer Burn
- Fresh from Concentrate
- Fresh Frozen
- Fried Ice Cream
- Friendly Argument
- Friendly Fire
- Front End
- Fucking Virgin
- Full-size Minivan
- Future History
- Gay Republican
- Genuine Imitation
- Good Grief
- Good Morning
- Good Shit
- Gourmet Pizza
- Government Organization
- Government Worker
- Grand Children
- Great Depression
- Guest Host
- Half Full (also Half Empty)
- Hamburger Steak
- Happily Married
- Hard Water
- Holy War
- Honest Crook
- Hopelessly Optimistic
- Hot Chili
- Hot Ice / Icy Hot
- Hot water heater
- House Ethics
- Ice Water
- Idiot Savant
- Ill Health
- Important Game
- Industrial Park
- Instant Classic
- Income Tax
- Intense Apathy
- Irate Patient
- Jumbo Shrimp
- Larger Half
- Lean Pork
- Lee Jackson King Day (a state holiday in Virginia for Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Martin Luther King)
- Legally Drunk
- Light-Heavyweight
- Liquid Gas
- Little Giant
- Live Recording
- Living Dead
- Loud Whisper
- Male Intellect
- Mandatory Option
- Marijuana Initiative
- Medium Large
- Metal Woods (it's a golf thing)
- Microsoft Works
- Mighty Weak
- Mild Abrasive
- Minor Disaster
- Military Intelligence
- Mobil Station
- Mobile Home
- Modern Art
- Modern History
- Modern Tradition
- Monopoly (Mono Poly)
- Nearly Completed
- New Classic
- Night Light
- No-good Do-gooder!
- Non-alcoholic beer
- Non-dairy creamer
- Non-stop Flight
- Nothing Much
- "Now, then..."
- Numb Feeling
- Old News
- Only Choice
- Organized Mess
- Original Copy
- Partially Completed
- Passive Aggression
- Peace Force
- Peacekeeper Missile
- Perfect Idiot
- Perfectly Normal
- Plastic Flowers
- Plastic Glasses
- Plastic Lemons
- Plastic Silverware
- Political Science
- Postal Service
- Pro-choice Christian
- Pretty Ugly
- Quickly Slowing Down
- Random Logic (also Fuzzy Logic)
- Rap Music
- Religious Tolerance
- Representative Democracy
- Required Elective
- Resident Alien
- Restless Sleep
- Rubber Bones
- Safe Sex
- Same Difference
- Sanitary Landfill
- Second Best
- Silent Scream
- Simple Confusion
- Singular Relationship
- Sitting Up
- Slightly Pregnant
- Slightly Overweight
- Small Crowd
- Smart Ass
- Smart Blonde
- Soft Rock
- Software Documentation
- Speed Limit
- Squared Circle (wrestling term)
- Standard Deviation
- State Development
- State Worker
- Stationary Orbit
- Student Athlete
- Student Teacher
- Sure Bet
- Sweet Sorrow
- Synthetic Natural Gas
- Tainted Love
- Taped Live
- Temporary Tax Increase
- Terribly Nice
- Terribly Pleased
- "This page intentionally left blank"
- Thunderous Silence
- Tight Slacks
- Toll Free
- Tough Love
- Turned Up Missing
- Twelve-ounce Pound Cake
- Unacceptable Solution
- Unauthorized Autobiography
- Unbiased Opinion
- Unsalted Saltines
- Unwelcome Greetings
- Vanilla Fudge
- Wet Drywall
- Whisper Loudly
- White Chocolate
- Wireless cable
- Work Party
- Working Vacation
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