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Offline MicroPsycho

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The Oxymoron thread
on: January 04, 2005, 06:46:01 pm
In case you don't know, an oxymoron is a contradictory word, term or phrase, for example the word 'bittersweet' is oxymoron.

Post some oxymoron's that you may know, they can be a word, phrase or sentence. Hopefully we can have some fun with this.

I'll start:

'Microsoft Works'

and the one I've been using in my sig, 'Derek Smart'
Derek Smart is his own oxymoron.
 

Offline Falcon

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Reply #1 on: January 04, 2005, 06:47:49 pm
Good Spam..........
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #2 on: January 04, 2005, 05:53:31 pm
Honest politician
 

Offline Flaser

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Reply #3 on: January 04, 2005, 06:54:57 pm
I digress! This one is actually entertaining and educating.

Hmmm....an Oxymoron of my own....

Mircrosoft Networking

....sorry can't think of anything else. Good initiative though.
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Offline Sandwich

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Reply #4 on: January 04, 2005, 05:57:46 pm
Military Intelligence.
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Sandwich

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Reply #5 on: January 04, 2005, 05:58:29 pm
Ok, this timewarp thing is fun. :p
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #6 on: January 04, 2005, 06:00:42 pm
Sweet 'n sour

Appletalk
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Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #7 on: January 04, 2005, 06:06:56 pm
Friendly Fire
Any fool can pull a trigger...
 

Offline Ghostavo

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Reply #8 on: January 04, 2005, 06:07:18 pm
aldo_14, Sandwich, stop meddling with this time period :p :lol:

Isn't Hard Light an oxymoron? :nervous:

EDIT:
Oh **** I'm from the past too! :shaking:
"Closing the Box" - a campaign in the making :nervous:

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Offline Rictor

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Reply #9 on: January 04, 2005, 06:12:19 pm
free trade
 

Offline Liberator

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Reply #10 on: January 04, 2005, 06:33:58 pm
skilled noob
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.
 

Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: The Oxymoron thread
Reply #11 on: January 04, 2005, 06:48:20 pm
Quote
Originally posted by MicroPsycho
Derek Smart is his own oxymoron.


That is actually a pretty clever phrase :lol:
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Offline Mentok

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Reply #12 on: January 04, 2005, 06:58:51 pm
same diffierence

:yes: first post :yes:
We now return you to your regularily scheduled topic...
 

Offline Ghostavo

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Reply #13 on: January 04, 2005, 07:05:57 pm
:welcome:

EDIT:
The timeline is fixed :D
"Closing the Box" - a campaign in the making :nervous:

Shrike is a dirty dirty admin, he's the destroyer of souls... oh god, let it be glue...
 

Offline Jetmech Jr.

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Reply #14 on: January 04, 2005, 08:09:49 pm
Forward to the Past!

And no, no relation to the problems HLP's been having what with the Time Warp thing...
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Blind people with them..."

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Offline Annihilation

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Reply #15 on: January 04, 2005, 08:16:34 pm
Good lawyer :D
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Offline SKYNET-011

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Reply #16 on: January 04, 2005, 07:19:48 pm
Holy ****?

it's 9:20 pm here... yet it says i posted at 1:19...

oOOOoooOOOOOooooo.....

It's a delayed action y2k bug!!!:shaking:
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #17 on: January 04, 2005, 08:19:01 pm
Hard Light is actually a reference to a certain type of hologram, so it's not an oxymoron.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline Corsair

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Reply #18 on: January 04, 2005, 08:27:41 pm
back to the future :D
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Reply #19 on: January 04, 2005, 08:29:17 pm
Freespace 3.
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