Top Oxymorons

[Mike Wooldridge]

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For you language lovers...

The Top 45 oxymorons

45. Act naturally
44. Found missing
43. Resident alien
42. Advanced BASIC
41. Genuine imitation
40. Airline food
39. Good grief
38. Same difference
37. Almost exactly
36. Government organization
35. Sanitary landfill
34. Alone together
33. Legally drunk
32. Silent scream
31. Living dead
30. Small crowd
29. Business ethics
28. Soft rock
27. Butt Head
26. Military Intelligence
25. Software documentation
24. New classic
23. Sweet sorrow (Aw, c'mon, Shakespeare used this deliberately!)
22. Childproof bottlecap
21. "Now, then ..."
20. Synthetic natural gas
19. Passive aggression
18. Taped live
17. Clearly misunderstood
16. Peace force
15. Extinct life
14. Temporary tax increase
13. Computer jock
12. Plastic glasses
11. Terribly pleased
10. Computer security
9. Political science
8. Tight slacks
7. Definite maybe
6. Pretty ugly
5. Twelve-ounce pound cake
4. Diet ice cream
3. Working vacation
2. Exact estimate

and

1. Microsoft Works

[Carsten Schermuly]

Some of the word combinations are not curious, they do make sense,
e. g.
41. Genuine imitation

Most popular in paintings, but also on other areas - remember to the "Hitler Diaries"?

My friend Mrs. Arvay - Cunderlikova


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did copy already years ago some paintings by Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) and her copies got best opinions by professionals like "genuine imitations". That does begin by using selfmixed colours, today only rarely used, by sometimes poisoned ingredients to meet exactly the light uneven surface structure of the originals. She did not to earn money with the fine art by others, she did just to complete her studies.

On markets for fine arts such "masterpieces of copies, nearby as good as the originals" will get regularily very high prices.
"Oh, it is an Arvay copy!"
Sometimes copies are as good, that the copies will been copied by fine art pirates.

There are more such word combinations, do make sense, but
the collection points to a second, a double sense
and this is the fun.
I like that much.
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