Reflections

Oxymorons Worth Sharing

Posted by on Jan 5, 2010 | 3 Comments

I received this in an email this morning and thought I would share this with you. If you have any other oxymorons please share them with us. The one I like is this one: Why do we call it a pair of pants when there is only one? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call them a pair of pants when we have two pair?

Thanks for stopping by,

Jackie

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’re 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. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?

20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?

21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?

22. 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 – What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?

28. Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

I dunno, why do we?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Skorseth/100000550093530 Dan Skorseth

    “Somewhere in Time” – with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour (1980). Great movie that explores the idea of time travel through hypnosis. Christopher Reeve travels back to the turn of the century to woo what he thinks is a lost love from the past, but something pulls him back to the present. What is it? You’ll have to watch it to find out.

  • http://twitter.com/Bill_A_Nator Bill Glendening

    The two movies I can remember I remember as a kid where Back to the Future and The Time Machine (1960) (I’m 28 and this was during the early to mid 90s)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_E4D67AAJCCXPRL4A3SZ3DCMOCU DouglasW

    Two of my favorites are “Time after Time”: HG Wells and Jack the Ripper travel to present day San Francisco.

    And “Final Countdown”; Present day US air craft carrier thrown back in time to Hawaii just before the Japanese strike Pearl Harbour in pre WWII