OXYMORA ^*

collected by The Russler

• Accompanist for the A Cappella Choir
  (activity listed in Vickie_Michelle_Clear's profile)
• Act Naturally
• Adult Children
• Advance To The Rear
  (U.S. Army term)
• Advanced BASIC
  (computer language)
• Advanced Introduction
  --Nerain_Gehani
• Agreeably Contemptuous
  --Agatha Christie
• Almost Exactly
• Alone Together
• American French Bread
• American Indian
• Annual Lighting Of The Eternal Flame
• Anxious Patient
• Army Civilian
• Assistant Head Coach
• Astronomically Low
  --Arthur_Caplan
• Awfully Good

• Back End Of The Front
  --Ron Chapman
• Bacon Bagels
  (according to Michael Kirk, since bagel is a Jewish food)
• Barely Covered
• Bisexual Unisex Concept
  --Mike_Clifford (on Grace_Jones)
• Bigger Half
• Blacklight
• Blond Brownies
• Boy Cow
  --girl in TV ad
• Branded Generic Cigarettes
  (available in convenience stores)
• Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
  (Japanese martial arts originating in South America)
• Business Ethics

• Casual Sex
• Chilling Fire
  (from Bellamy Brothers song "Strong Weakness")
• Christian College
• Civil War
• Clear Ambiguity
  contributed by Mabry
• Clear Boggy Creek
  southeastern Oklahoma
• Clearly Misunderstood
• Closed-Hole
  (type of flute)
• Computer Jock
• Congruous Oxymoron
• Constant Change
• Constructive Criticism
• © Public Domain
  ("P.D." means there is no copyright)
• Counterterrorism Czar
• Creative Destruction
  --Sandra_A._Shelton

• Dark Streak Of Light
  --Mortimer Brewster (in "Arsenic & Old Lace")
• Dead Livestock
• Deafening Silence
  --Ohio politician
• Deeply Superficial
• Definite Maybe
• Definite Possibility
  --David_Inloes
• Derogatory Compliment
  --Leonard_Crowe
• Descended Into Heaven
• Diet Ice Cream
• Dodge Ram
• Double Solitaire
  (card game)
• Drive Friendly, The Texas Way
  (road sign)
• Dues-Paying Nonmember
  (labor union term)

• Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  (computer term)
• Ethical Hackers
  --I.B.M. spokesman
• Even Odds
• Evergeen Blue
  (siding color)
• Exact Estimate
• Exact Same Opposite Thing
  --David Beck
• Exact Same Opposite Thing
  --David Beck
• Exclusively For Everyone
  --Choctaw Casino
• Extended Briefs
  (underwear type)
• Extinct Life
• Extraordinary Ordinary People
  --Derek_R._Copperthwaite

• Factual Errors
  --Danny_Fullerton
• Failure-Success
  --Carol_Realini
• Final Draft
  (binder cover)
• Final Semifinal
  --Ken Jennings
• Flat-File Data Base
  --Jeff_Duntemann
• Flat Hill
  (place in Alabama)
• Flat Point
  (practice arrow tip)
• Forecasting Backward
  --Jay_Scholten
• Found Missing
  ("There it was:   gone!")
• Four-Legged Tripod
  --Roseanne_Pagano
• Freewill Baptist Church
• Freeze Thaw
  (Basia song)
• Friendly Divorce
• Frozen Hot Chocolate
  Café Brazil
• Full-Blood Mongrel
  --Robert Scott
• Full-Cut Brief
  (contributed by Johnny Mabry)
• Fuzzy Logic
  (according to John Opalko)

• Genuine Imitation
• Genuinely Bogus
• Ghost Ranch Living Museum
  tourist trap
• Going-Away Reception
• Going To Stay
  --The Russler
• Good Catholic
  (contributed by Ann_Chambers, one of the best Catholics I know)
• Good Grief
• Gourmet Cat Food
• Government Organization
• Growing Smaller

• Hands-Off Manager
• Hawaiian Blizzard
  (Dairy Queen treat)
• High-Level Assembly Language
  --Bruce_Eckel
• Hill Valley
  (town in "Back To The Future")
• Holy War
  (according to Brant Parker & Johnny Hart)
• Honest Lawyer
  (just kidding)
• Honest Subterfuge
  --Stephen R. Donaldson
• Humble Texan
• Humorous Tragedies
  --KBMX deejay
• Hyperdimensional Flatland
  --Larry_Wall

• Important Trivia
  --The Russler
• Incredible Credibility
  --Rush Limbaugh
• Inexpensive Expensive Car
  --writer in Automotive News
• Initial Revision
  (version control term for first version of a program)
• Instant Classic
  --movie reviewers
• Intimate Strangers
• Iron Butterly
  (music group)
• It's a very sort of disjointed way to work.
  --Robert Lamm, describing Chicago's portable recording studio, which is either sort of disjointed or very disjointed. Or both.

• Jumbo Shrimp
  (according to George Carlin)

• Lady Cowboys
  --Southwood High in Shreveport
  (I s'pose lady cowboys are ranch hands that work with daddy cows.)
• Lady Wrestler
• Last Initial
• Legally Drunk
• Light Heavyweight
  (boxing division)
• Liquid Paper
  (product name)
• Liquid Steel
  (product name)
• Little Texas
  (music group)
• Live Video
• Living Dead
• Living Hell
• Long Shorts
• Long Summary
  (Technical Products Division term)
• Loose Tights
  --John_Dratwa
• Loyal Opposition
  --Phil_Clark

• Mainland Island
  two different islands in Scotland (one in the Orkneys and one in the Shetlands)
• Managed Competition
  (according to Rush Limbaugh)
• Microsoft Works
  (according to users)
• Mild Hot Sauce
  (according to Christine Wick)
• Military Intelligence
  (according to Groucho Marx)
• Minor But Significant
  --Nicholas_Petreley
• Minor Crisis
• Minor Miracle
• Modern History
• More Or Less Permanent
  --Pat_Kirtley
• Most All Of You
  --Alysen_Northern
• Mutually Self-Destructive
  --Harold_Duncan

• Narrowly Trounce
  --Steve_Bartlett
• Negative Growth
• Neo-Classic
• Never Ever
• New Antiques
• New Cliché
  --Sam Goldwyn
• New Old-Fashioned Way
  (from the song "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree")
• New Oldies 98
  (radio station name)
• New Testament Association Of Independent Baptist Churches
• Nice Lousy Day
• Now, Then . . .

• One Box Of Frozen Spinach, Thawed
  (recipe ingredient)
• One Can Tuna In Water, Drained
  (recipe ingredient)
• One Small Package Of Thawed Frozen Blueberries
  (recipe ingredient)
• One Choice
  (you can have no choice, you can have two or more, but not one)
• Open-Faced Sandwich
• Open Secret
  --Honor Moore
• Oral Scripture
  --Robert K. Oglesby
• Organized Chaos
  --Bill Hunter
• Original Duplicate Copy
• Overtly Tricky
  --Reader's Digest
• Oxymoron
  (Greek for "sharp dullard")

• Paid Volunteers
  --Harry_R._Covey
• Pair Off In Threes, Then Line Up In A Circle, Alphabetically By Height
• Passive Aggressive
• Pea-Green Pink
• Peace Force
• Peaceful Thunder
  (Louis Bellson jazz piece)
• Pebbles Boulders
  (breakfast cereal)
• Perfect Crime
• Planned Spontaneity
  --Terry Nelson
• Plastic Cloth
  (we purchased for the dining room)
• Plastic Glass
• Plastic Silverware
• Pointedly Blunt
• Political Science
• Popular Tripe
  --Dean Jaeger (in "Ghostbusters")
• Pretty Ugly
  --Kathy Scott
• Private Conversation With A Reporter
  --Houston Chronicle
• Profitable Waste Of Time
  --P.J. O'Rourke (on writing screenplays)
• Progressive Conservative
  (Canadian political party)
• Prose Poem
• Pure Decadence
  --Frank Velez
• Pure Dirt
  --Kathy Scott
• Pure Germs
  --Kathy Scott
• Pure Hogwash
  --Robert Oglesby

• Quiet Riots
  (Louis Bellson jazz piece)

• Raise It Down
  --The Russler
• Rap Singer
• Real Fake Blood
  --someone on "Good Morning America"
• Real Live Tombstone
  --Robert_Taylor
• Real Magic
• Real Person In Fiction
  --Jeannette Scott
• Real Phony
• Realistic Optimism
• Really Unreal
  --someone in a meeting I attended
• Relaxation Exercises
• Relaxed Alertness
  (EDS travel safety tips)
• Religious Tolerance
• Remotely Intimate
  --Cathy Adams
• Required Option
• Resident Alien
• Ridge Creek
  (Plano, Texas neighborhood)
• River Ridge
  (Austin, Texas neighborhood)
• Rural Metro
  (ambulance service)
• Rush Stop
  (convenience store)

• Saint John's Church Of Christ
  (Hebron, Nord Dakota)
  (Whose is it, John's or Christ's?)
• Same Difference
  --Jeannette Scott
• Same-Sex Marriage
• Sanitary Landfill
• Sanitary Sewer
  (manhole cover)
• Secret Interviews With Journalists
• Secular Religion
  --William Nack & Lester Munson
• Self-Defense Of A Third Party
  --law enforcement officer
• Separated Together
  --Laura_Doty
• Silent Scream
• Simply Clever
  --Reader's Digest
• Simply Lemonade with blueberry
  --product name
• 67% minority
  --Patricia Kilday Hart
• Small Crowd
• Small Luxury Sedan
  (USA Today)
• Smaller Half
• Smart Dummies
  (used in automobile testing)
• Soft Rock
  (numerous radio stations)
• Solo Synchronized Swimming
  (according to Gallagher)
• Sound Of Silence
  (Simon & Garfunkel song)
• Standard Options
  --Angie_Turner
• Standby Active
  (machine state)
• Standing-Room-Only Seats
  --Rhonda_Hughes and others
• Sticking Up In All Directions
  --The Russler
• Still Life
• Strangely Familiar
• Strong Weakness
  (Bellamy Brothers song)
• Student Athlete
  (according to Donice Jordan)
• Sunday Night
  (or any other day night)
• Sure Bet
• Sweet Sorrow
• Synthetic Natural Gas

• Taped Live
• Terribly Nice
  --Shirin_Jeevaji
• Terribly Pleased
• Thirty-Minute Hourglass
• Three-Inch Square Piece Of Rectangular Metal
• Tight Slacks
• Titanium Woods
  (trend in golf clubs)
• Top Of His Bottom
  --anonymous marriage therapist
• Totally Loosely Coupled
• Totally Partial
• Travel Stop
• True Lies
• Turned Up Missing
  ("There it was:   gone!")
• Twelve-Ounce Pound Cake

• Unbiased Opinion
• Unique ID Duplicates
  (serious data base problem)
• Unemployed Workers
• Useless Exercise

• Very Secretive And Very Much Publicized
  --Ron Chapman

• Woodstone
  (Valdosta, Georgia neighborhood)
• Working Vacation
• Workplace Privacy
• Wrinkle-Free Cotton Fabric

^* oxymoron   [noun]
a combination of contradictory or incongruous words
(Merriam-Webster)