If this page doesn't want to work, goto my tableless page.

What you ask is an oxymoron? Well I'll tell you. The Concise Oxford Dictionary (from 1964) states it as being a "Figure of speech with pointed conjunction of seeming contradictories (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true). In other words, it is a combination of words regularly regarded as opposites, that are used together in everyday life. The root of the word is as follows: Oxymoron, from the Greek
oxys = sharp, and
moros = dull / foolish.

Shayne's list 'o oxymorons
advanced basic
airline food
alone together
amateur expert
athletic scholarship
baby grand (piano)
black light
Brief survey
Cherokee Pioneer (vehicle)
civil war
Congressional ethics
criminal justice
crisis management
Deafening silence
Death Benefits
divorce court
Dodge Ram (vehicle)
down escalator
dry wine
elementary calculus
evaporated milk
even odds
extra time
fast idle
flexible freeze (economics)
freezer burn
fresh frozen
friendly argument
fuzzy logic
gourmet pizza
governmental efficiency
great depression
guest host
half empty
half full
Honest Crook
hopelessly optimistic
hospital food
idiot savant
industrial park
irate patient
jumbo shrimp
junk food
Lean pork
Light-Heavyweight
live recording
mandatory option
marijuana initiative
Medium Large
Mild Abrasive
military intelligence
minor disaster
Mobil station
No-good Do-gooder!
nonstop flight
old news
Organized mess
original copy
partially completed
passive aggression
peacekeeper missile
perfect idiot
planned serendipity
plastic glasses
political promise
pretty ugly
random logic
rap music
Renegade Lawmakers (from CNN during the battle in Moscow.)
scheduled spontaneity (From a Franklin time management class.)
Second Best
singular relationship
standard deviation
student teacher
sure bet
sweet sorrow
terribly nice
Turbo Diesel
unacceptable solution
work party
working vacation
soft rock
jumbo shrimp
short tall tales
sound filled silence
organized chaos
definite maybe
loud whisper
little giant
perfectly awful
restless sleep
little big horn
hard softball
shout in a whisper
deafening silence
Death Benefits
hard pillow
serious clown