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Oxymoron. An Oxymoron itself.

Someone confused an oxymoron with a paradox.

My favorite oxymoron: "ANARCHY RULES!"

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How about this: Considerate troll.

Benign tumor

Loving apathist.

Well thought out response.

Clean 4chan.

Successful KYM troll

Corporate ethics

A smart member of the Bush family.

Peoples' Republic of China

Smart americans.

Creation Science

It was only a matter of time.

Central Intelligence Agency

His nose would grow sideways.

That's still growing.

But it wouldn't be the typical way in which his nose grows.

Republican Party

Religious education.

Human Intelligence.

Um, how many of the people posting in this thread actually know what an "oxymoron" is? I'm just asking because we seem to be nearly 20 posts into this thread, and only three, maybe four actual oxymora have been posted.

You see, an oxymoron is not simply putting together two words that contradict each other. For example, "Loving apathist"? Try a Google search on that phrase, in quotes; you will get zero results. An oxymoron is a phrase that someone would actually utter at some time being (or pretending to be) unaware of the hidden irony, otherwise any pair of antonyms stuck together would be an oxymoron. "Black white" is just two words with opposite meaning stuck together, but "black gold" is a slang term for crude oil that is made up of two contradictory terms.

Also, while phrases like "People's Republic of China" are oxymora for the reason that pretty much everyone knows that China is, in reality, all about oppressing people (some people have noted this seems to go for just about any country named "People's Republic of _____") that doesn't mean that any group or idea that you consider to be assholes that have a multi-part name are therefore an oxymoron. Case in point: "Republican Party". Yeah, I know we're all liberals that consider the GOP to be a cadre of filthy douche bags, but that doesn't make them an oxymoron.

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Educational television

Outgoing introvert

Industrial Park

Parkway
Driveway

Monopoly.
Mono: One
Poly: Many

Simply superb. Karma to all of you.

Censored internet.

Mormon Porn

Awful(ly) [insert any positive adjective]

actually no. monopoly is from monos (which means single/alone) and polein (which means to sell)

true. oxymoron actually is "oxy" (which means "sharp") and "moron" (which means "dull")

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The most obvious oxymoron above all is Dark Sun.

Southern Democrat

I was looking through some of the pictures I took on my trip to Singapore a few years back, and came across this one. Can you tell why I took it?
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(Hint: It has to do with the reason I posted it here.)

Pyrophobic pyromaniac.

^ That's actually possible in the mind of a maniac.

Righteous gangsters
you know, the ones in the movies.