List of Oxymorons

•"Anarchy rules!"

•"Free with purchase"

•"Happy Monday"

•"Never generalize"

•"One size fits all"

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•A little big

•Academic sorority

•Accurate stereotype

•Act naturally

•Advanced BASIC

•Aerobic exercise

•Affirmative action, equal opportunity

•Affordable housing

•Aging yuppie

•Airline food

•Almost exactly

•Alone together

•American beer

•American chop suey

•American education

•American English

•American geographers

•American history

•Apple tech support

•Arms limitation

•Art student

•Artificial intelligence

•Athletic scholarship

•Australian spelling

•Automated data processing

•Back to the future

•Bad health

•Bankrupt millionaire

•Beginning Finnish

•Better than new

•Black light

•Boring orgasm

•Brave politician

•British fashion

•Budget deficit

•Bug free code

•Business ethics

•Butthead

•Cafeteria food

•California culture

•California expressway

•Canadian culture

•Casual intimacy

•Central Intelligence Agency

•Cheerful pessimist

•Christian education

•Christian militia

•Christian Scientists

•Church of Scientology

•Civil servant

•Civil libertarian

•Classic rock & roll

•Clean dirt

•Clearly confused

•Clearly misunderstood

•Clinton leadership

•Coca-Cola Foods

•Coed fraternity/sorority

•Collective liberty

•College algebra

•College education

•Colored music

•Committee decision

•Common sense

•Communist Party

•Completely unfinished

•Computer science

•Computer jock

•Computer security

•Congressional action

•Congressional hearing

•Conservative Democrat

•Constant change

•Construction worker

•Convenience store

•Cooperative multitasking

•Corporate planning

•Cost effective

•Country music

•Courtesy towing

•Creation science

•Curved line

•Customer satisfaction

•CNN style

•Debugged program

•Debutante ball

•Decent lawyer

•Definite maybe

•Degradable plastic

•Democratic Congress

•Desktop publishing

•Diet ice cream

•Dining hall food

•Disco music

•Down escalator/elevator

•Dress pants

•Driving pleasure

•Dry ice

•Dry wine

•DOS operating system

•Economic reform

•Electroshock therapy

•Enquiring minds

•Environmentalist bumper sticker

•Ergonomic keyboard

•European Community

•Evolutionary fact

•Exact estimate

•Express bus

•Express mail

•Fair trial

•Fallout shelter

•Fast food

•Federal budget

•Final version

•First annual

•Flat-busted

•Flexible freeze

•Football scholarship

•Forth programming language

•Free election

•Free electron laser

•Free love

•Freezer burn

•French culture

•Friendly advice

•Friendly competitor

•Friendly fire

•Full-length bikini

•Full service

•Functional manager

•Funny clean joke

•Fuzzy logic

•Gay drill sergeant

•Genuine imitation

•Good mother-in-law

•Good Alan Rudolph film

•Government aid/assistance

•Government efficiency

•Government integrity

•Government organization

•Graduate student

•Great Britain

•Gunboat diplomacy

•Half dead

•Hard disk

•Hard water

•Helicopter flight

•Higher education

•Holy Roman Empire

•Holy War

•Honest crook

•Honest politician

•House Ethics Committee

•Human evolution

•Indecent exposure

•Industrial park

•Institutional Revolutionary Party

•Intelligent lifeforms

•Internal Revenue Service

•IBM compatible

•Journalistic accuracy

•Journalistic integrity

•Jumbo shrimp

•Justice Rehnquist

•Justice Thomas

•Kentucky Fried Chicken

•Kosher ham

•Lebanese government

•Legal brief

•Legal ethics

•Legally drunk

•Liberal Party (conservative)

•Liberal, Kansas

•Liquid crystal

•Living dead

•Long Island Expressway

•Male compassion

•Management science

•Management action

•Management style

•Marketing strategy

•Married life

•Martial law

•Math teacher

•Mature student

•McDonalds dinner

•Meatless hamburger

•Medicaid payment

•Microsoft Works

•Middle East peace process

•Military intelligence

•Militart justice

•Modified final judgement

•Monopoly

•Moral Majority

•Mutual attraction

•Mutually exclusive

•Necessary meeting

•New Classic

•New Democrat

•New Mexico

•Nice cat

•Noble savage

•Non-denominational church

•Now, then

•Nuclear defense

•Oddly appropriate

•OpenVMS

•Operation Rescue

•Pacific Ocean

•Paperless office

•Partly pregnant

•Passive aggression

•Peace force

•Peace officer

•People's Democratic Republic Of Yemen

•Personal computer

•Petty cash

•Philosophy science

•Plastic glasses

•Plastic silverware

Police protection

•Polite cabbie

•Political leadership

•Political science

•Poor Republican

•Pop art

•Postal Service

•Pot luck

•Precision bombing

•Presidential promises

•Pretty ugly

Private e-mail

•Professional courtesy

•Proprietary standard

•Public school education

•Quality assurance

•Quality service

•Quebec intellectual

•Quick fix

•Quick reboot

•R & D

•Rapid transit

•Rare steak

•Reagan memoirs

•Real fantasy

•Realistic schedule

•Reasonable female

•Recently new

•Reckless caution

•Red Indians

•Relativistic correction

•Religious education

•Religious fact

•Religious science

•Republican initiative

•Resident alien

•Responsible committee

•Rolling stop

•Rush hour

•Safe sex

•Same difference

•Satisfied Democrat

•Saving price

•Savings & loan

•School food

•School vacation

•Second best

•Sedate sex

•Semi truck

•Semi-boneless ham

•Senate Ethics Committee

•Sensitive male

•Silent scream

•Small crowd

•Smart bomb

•Smart drugs

•Social Security

•Socialist Worker

•Soft rock

•Software engineering

•Solid glass

•Southern justice

•Spare rib

•Speed limit

•Sports sedan

•Stealth bomber

•Straight hook

•Student athlete

•Student teacher

•Summer school

•Suburban culture

•Supporting documentation

•Sweet sorrow

•Swiss Steak

•Tame cat

•Taped live

•Tax return

•Television critic

•Temporary tax increase

•Terminal initialization

•Tight slacks

•Tone color

•Total Quality Management (TQM

•True gossip

•True story

•Unbiased journalism

•Unbiased opinion

•Unbiased predisposition

•Uncontested divorce

•Understanding banker

•Understanding Unix

•Union workers

•United States

•University of Nevada at Las Vegas

•Unix prompt

•Unix security

•Unsalted Saltines

•Urban planning

•User friendliness

•User-friendly war

•Ventura Freeway

•Violent agreement

•Virtual reality

•Voting power

•Waiting patiently

•War games

•War hero

•Wilderness management

•Windows NT (New Technology)

•Wonder Bread

•Woods Metal

•Working vacation

•Work Party

•Yummy sushi

•10K fun run

•6502-based computer

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