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Started by Lilias, December 10, 2008, 05:20:36 PM

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Lilias

1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
8. Why do "tug" boats push their barges?
9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?
10. Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
11. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?
12. Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?
13. Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?
14. Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things?
15. Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds?
16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
19. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
20. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?
23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?
24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?
25. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
26. Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?
27. Christmas is weird!!! What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks!?!?
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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Nacht

28) WHY is it called Microsoft Works?!   ;D

Autumn Sativus

19. Why is it called a driveway, when you park there?
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Will

Why is it called a building, when it's already built?
If you can heal the symptoms, but not affect the cause
It's like trying to heal a gunshot wound with gauze

One day, I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
- Jack Kerouac

Mathim

Why are we missing 21 and 22?

Why doesn't Oxymoron mean what it sounds like, an oxygen-deprived person resulting in them acting like a moron?

Why do progress and Congress technically mean the opposite, but claim to be the same thing?

Why if humans are mostly made of water do we still drown?

Why is 'butt' not a verb if we have butter? Or 'fing' if we have fingers?
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Nacht

Quote from: Saffron on December 15, 2008, 01:40:13 AM
19. Why is it called a driveway, when you park there?

Because you drive on the parkway, silly! XD