Conference thebay::joyoflex

    re: -.1
    
    Now Chief Justice Rehnquist.  For a good, albeit biased, account
    of this man on the Supreme Court, read "The Brethren".  Then shift
    to SOAPBOX...
    
    'nother oxymoron: Supreme Court?

    --- jerry

I think most of these don't really qualify as oxymora, because the
quality of being "contradictory or incongruous" is only in the
sarcastic 'tone of voice', not in the words themselves. Calling terms
such as "military intelligence", "cafeteria food", or "christian science" 
oxymora simply shows the speakers personal prejudices; they are not
objectively contradictory (as I think oxymora should be).

Stephen

    Re: .9

Oxymora is the plural of oxymoron. Webster's New College Dictionary.

Stephen

Re .8:

I thought that was Pto-Bin

Good pun.

(P.S. to .-1 : Welcome back, Bill! haven't seen you in here for a while.)

    Re: .15
    
    "Jumbo shrimp" is not an oxy. The word "shrimp" in this case refers
    to an animal, not a size, and the phrase "jumbo shrimp" is no more
    contradictory than would be "jumbo clams."
    
    -bs

    Fresh frozen jumbo shrimp = large decapods of the suborder Natantia
    flash frozen immediately after capture.
    
    -bs 

    Re: .19
    Oh yeah!  A shrimp is also a puny thing.  A jumbo thing is big thing.
    Therefore, oxy-moronus.  In fact, your reply has a strong odor of shrimp
    about it.
    
    Bernie :^)

Virtual truth.

(isn't that a boolean value in VMS?)

    Greater Cleveland
    Moral Majority
    pianoforte

    "pianoforte" is not an oxymoron, it refers to the ability of the
    instrument to play softly (piano) or loudly (forte), as opposed
    to previous keyboard instruments, like the harpsichord, that were very
    limited in their dynamic range.
    
    But we all knew that already, didn't we? ;-)
                                                   
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Re .29:

	Don't forget the "fortepiano".  No joke !  An older instrument
	than the modern day piano was called this.  Talk about confusion!

/Eric

    Mandatory option
    Good grief
    Superette
    sweet sorrow
    guest host
    growing small
    even odds
    awful good
    inside out
    same difference
    dry ice
    flat busted
    original copy
    recorded live
    death benefit
    plastic silverware
    standard deviation
    student athlete
    non-working mother
    war games
    designer jeans
    Amtrak schedule
    
    
    These are from Richard Letterer (sp?), a language commentator on
    Concord, NH's WEVO-FM - he does a good segment three or so times
    a week ten or so minutes before 5:00 PM weekdays.
    Some (most) of these might not be strict oxymora, but most (all)
    provide a bit of a smile.

Raised to the ground?

Richard.

>Raised to the ground?

No, no, that's RAZED. A pun, not an oxy.

By the way, 'dry ice' [see .-2] is not an oxy at all - it is the natural 
condition for [nearly?] all frozen substances whose room-temperature state
is gaseous, like carbon dioxide. Unlike water, they make the transition
between solid and gas without becoming liquid. 

Re: .33,.34

Thus we move from the incredulous to the sublime...

JP

Museum of Contemporary Art

    Re .38:
    
    There was a network dropout.  I'll repeat:
    
    there was a fairly good comic-book four-part story, the title of
    which was an oxymoron worth savoring:
    
    _The Untold Legend of the Batman_
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    

      Re .39
      
      I've seen DEC literature describing "undocumented features,"
      too.
      
      Dave C.

    re .44: (Constructive Criticism)
    
    This is not an oxymoron.
                                                   
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--angela