The Canonical List of Oxymorons
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Last update:143 Aug 1996

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"Anarchy rules!"
"Buy now and save"
"Free with purchase"
"Happy Monday"
"I have what I'm looking for"
"Never generalize"
"One size fits all"
"Road Works Ahead"
"Save up to 50% and more"
"Slow children" (sign with a picture of a running child)
"Thank God I'm an Atheist"
"This page intentionally left blank"
10K fun run
12-ounce pound cake
6502-based computer
A little big
Above it all
Academic sorority
Accordion music
Accurate stereotype
Act naturally
Advanced BASIC
Aerobic exercise
Affirmative action, equal opportunity
Affordable housing
Aging yuppie
Airline food
Airline legroom
Almost exactly
Alone together
American English
American Honda
American beer
American chop suey
American culture
American education
American geographers
American history
Americans
Amtrak schedule
Appeared invisible
Apple tech support
Arms limitation
Army intelligence
Art student
Artificial intelligence
Assisted suicide
Athletic scholarship
Australian spelling
Automated data processing
Awfully good
Awfully pretty
Back to the future
Bad health
Balding hair
Bankrupt millionaire
Beginning Finnish
Better than new
Bittersweet
Black light
Boring orgasm
Brave politician
Brief wait
British fashion
Budget deficit
Bug free code
Business ethics
Butthead
CNN style
Cafeteria food
California culture
California expressway
Canadian culture
Canadian identity
Casual intimacy
Catproof
Central Intelligence Agency
Centrally-planned economy
Cheerful pessimist
Childproof
Christian education
Christian militia
christian nation
Christian Scientists
Church of Scientology
Civil engineer
Civil libertarian
Civil servant
Civil war
Classic rock & roll
Clean dirt
Clean hack
Clearly confused
Clearly misunderstood
Clearly vague
Climb down
Clinton leadership
Clouded reflection
Coca-Cola Foods
Coed fraternity/sorority
Collective liberty
College algebra
College education
Colored music
Committee decision
Committee schedule
Common sense
Commonwealth
Communist Party
Competitive pressure
Completely unfinished
Comprehensive medical benefits
Compulsory volunteering
Computer jock
Computer science
Computer security
Concerned Canadian
Congressional action
Congressional ethics
Congressional hearing
Congressional oversight
Conservative Democrat
Conspicuous absence
Constant change
Construction worker
Convenience store
Conventional wisdom
Cooperative multitasking
Corporate planning
Cost effective
Country music
Courtesy towing
Creation science
Creative uniforms
Cruel kindness
Cultural diversity
Curved line
Customer appreciation
Customer satisfaction
Cybersex
DOS operating system
Deafening silence
Debugged program
Debutante ball
Decent lawyer
Definite maybe
Deafening quiet
Deafening silence
Degradable plastic
Democratic Congress
Department of the Interior
Desktop publishing
Diet ice cream
Dining hall food
Disco music
Dogfood connisseur
Down escalator/elevator
Dress pants
Driving pleasure
Dry beer
Dry ice
Dry wine
Economic reform
Edible fruitcake
Electroshock therapy
Employee benefits
English syntax
Enquiring minds
Environmentalist bumper sticker
Ergonomic keyboard
European Community
Evolutionary fact
Exact estimate
Executive decision
Express bus
Express mail
Fair reporting
Fair trial
Fallout shelter
Family entertainment
Fast food
Federal budget
Feeling numb
Fighting for peace
Final version
Finally begun
First annual
First-strike defense
Flat-busted
Flexible freeze
Football scholarship
Forth programming language
Found missing
Free agent
Free coupons
Free election
Free electron laser
Free love
Free lunch
Free rent
Free trade
Freezer burn
French culture
Fresh frozen
Fried ice cream
Friendly advice
Friendly competitor
Friendly fire
Full service
Full-length bikini
Functional manager
Funny clean joke
Fuzzy logic
Gay drill sergeant
Gentle laxative
Genuine imitation
Good Alan Rudolph film
Good grief
Good mother-in-law
Government aid/assistance
Government efficiency
Government integrity
Government organization
Graduate student
Great Britain
Ground steak
Grow shorter
Grow smaller
Guest host
Gunboat diplomacy
Half complete
Half dead
Happily married
Hard disk
Hard water
Hazardous waste disposal
Helicopter flight
Higher education
Holy Roman Empire
Holy War
Home office
Honest crook
Honest lawyer
Honest politician
Hot chile
House Ethics Committee
Huge market niche
Human evolution
Humble politician
IBM compatible
Indecent exposure
Industrial park
Innovative uniforms
Institutional Revolutionary Party
Intelligent lifeforms
Internal Revenue Service
Journalistic accuracy
Journalistic integrity
Jumbo shrimp
Just in Time (JIT)
Justice Rehnquist
Justice Thomas
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Kosher ham
Lace-up loafers
Layoff protection
Lebanese government
Legal brief
Legal ethics
Legally drunk
Liberal Party (conservative)
Liberal, Kansas
Libertarian organization
Likewise unique
Limited success
Liquid crystal
Literal interpretation
Little bigger
Little fat
Living dead
Living in Buffalo
Long Island Expressway
Male compassion
Managed healthcare
Management action
Management award
Management science
Management style
Management support
Management systems
Marijuana initiative
Marketing strategy
Married life
Martial law
Math teacher
Mature student
McDonalds dinner
Meatless hamburger
Medicaid payment
Medical ethics
Metal woods (golf clubs)
Microsoft Works
Middle East peace process
Mighty weak
Militart justice
Military intelligence
Military peace
Minor surgery
Modified final judgement
Moldy cheese
Monopoly
Moral Majority
More equal
Mournful optimist
Mutual attraction
Mutually exclusive
Necessary meeting
New Classic
New Democrat
New Mexico
Nice cat
Noble savage
Non-alcoholic beer
Non-denominational church
Nonworking mother
Now, then
Nuclear defense
Objective parent
Oddly appropriate
O.J. Simpson trial
Open government
OpenVMS
Operating system
Operation Rescue
Original dubs/duplicates
Pacific Ocean
Painless dentist
Paperless office
Partly pregnant
Passive aggression
Past presents
Peace force
Peace officer
PeaceMaker missile
People's Democratic Republic Of Yemen
Personal ad
Personal computer
Petty cash
Philosophy science
Plastic glasses
Plastic silverware
Pocket calculator
Police protection
Polite cabbie
Political ethics
Political leadership
Political reality
Political science
Politically correct
Poor Republican
Pop art
Portable standard Lisp
Postal Service
Pot luck
Practical logic
Precision bombing
Presidential promises
Pretty ugly
Private e-mail
Productivity committee
Professional courtesy
Professional wrestling
Progressive Conservative
Proprietary standard
Psychiatric care
Public school education
Quality assurance
Quality management
Quality service
Quebec intellectual
Questions & answers
Quick fix
Quick reboot
QuickBASIC
R & D
Rap music
Rapid transit
Rare steak
Reagan memoirs
Real fantasy
Real fake
Realistic schedule
Realtime computing
Reasonable female
Recently new
Reckless caution
Recorder music
Red Indians
Relativistic correction
Religious education
Religious fact
Religious science
Religious tolerance
Republican initiative
Resident alien
Responsible committee
Restrained grandparent
Rock music
Rolling stop
Rush hour
Russian economy
Safe sex
Sales & service
Same difference
Sanitary landfill
Sanitary sewer
Satisfied Democrat
Saving price
Savings & loan
School food
School vacation
Scottish Danish (actual pastry sold at 7-11)
Second best
Secret Service
Sedate sex
Semi truck
Semi-boneless ham
Senate Ethics Committee
Sensitive male
Severely/slightly killed
Short volume
Silent scream
Slave owner
Slows quickly
Small crowd
Smart bomb
Smart drugs
Social Security
Social science
Socialist Worker
Soft rock
Software documentation
Software engineering
Solid glass
Southern justice
Sovereignty Association
Spare rib
Speed limit
Sport wagon
Sports sedan
Stealth bomber
Straight hook
Standard deviation
Student athlete
Student organization
Student teacher
Suburban culture
Summer school
Supporting documentation
Sustainable development
Sweet onions
Sweet sorrow
Swiss Steak
Synthetic natural gas
Tame cat
Taped live
Tax return
Team work
Television critic
Temporary tax increase
Terminal initialization
Terribly funny
Terribly pleased
Thunderous silence
Tight slacks
Toll freeway
Tone color
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Touch of diahrea
Tropical depression
True gossip
True story
Unbiased journalism
Unbiased news reports
Unbiased opinion
Unbiased predisposition
Uncontested divorce
Understanding Unix
Understanding banker
Union craftsman
Union labor
Union workers
United States
University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Unix prompt
Unix security
Unsalted Saltines
Unthaw
Urban planning
User friendliness
User-friendly war
Vegetable beef soup
Ventura Freeway
Violent agreement
Virtual reality
Voting power
Waiting patiently
War games
War hero
Welcome Tax
White America
Wilderness management
Windows NT (New Technology)
Wise fool
Wonder Bread
Wooden nickel
Woods Metal
Working vacation
Worldly Americans
Young Floridian
Yummy Yogurt
Yummy sushi
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