Favorite oxymorons

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Fair Tax

Known Unknowns
Unknown Knowns
Known Knowns
Unknown Unknowns

quote One former Defense Secretary.


I know I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. That's a known unknown.

An unknown unknown is when you don't yet realize what you don't yet know; like how my 3-year-old thinks she knows how to make bread just because I let her scoop the yeast starter into the dough.

 

[TooManyWheels]

Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more

I know I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. That's a known unknown.



Economic Forecasting

Project Plan

A corollary would be the act of the project sponsors in asking you to forecast when and how you will encounter and overcome problems.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
An unknown unknown is when you don't yet realize what you don't yet know; like how my 3-year-old thinks she knows how to make bread just because I let her scoop the yeast starter into the dough.


But that would be a known known to you, because you already knows that she doesn't know.

 

[TooManyWheels]

Hot Water Heater

 

[Tyler99]

"A little pregnant"

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: Torino
Bo-Jangles without a teleprompter.


That would just be moron.

 

[Tempest]

government assistance

public works

shovel ready jobs

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: Tempest
public works


Driving on mud road to work today and have your own septic tank at home?

 

[Tempest]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: Tempest
public works


Driving on mud road to work today and have your own septic tank at home?


Quote:
More than a quarter of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Leaky pipes lose an estimated seven billion gallons of clean drinking water every day. And aging sewage systems send billions of gallons of untreated wastewater cascading into the nation’s waterways each year.

These are among the findings of a report to be released Wednesday by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which assigned an overall D grade to the nation’s infrastructure and estimated that it would take a $2.2 trillion investment from all levels of government over the next five years to bring it into a state of good repair.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/us/politics/28projects.html

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: Tempest
More than a quarter of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Leaky pipes lose an estimated seven billion gallons of clean drinking water every day. And aging sewage systems send billions of gallons of untreated wastewater cascading into the nation’s waterways each year.


But you aren't driving on mud road or use your own septic tank at home though. So Public Work is only 25% oxymoron.

Anyways, one more:

Self Regulation

 

[Tempest]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear

But you aren't driving on mud road or use your own septic tank at home though. So Public Work is only 25% oxymoron.

Anyways, one more:

Self Regulation


So you consider yourself unable to handle your own affairs. Good to know.

 

[Cristobal]

Cash money.

 

[Whitewolf]

Try honest oil company (or any company).

 

[spasm3]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: Tempest
public works


Driving on mud road to work today and have your own septic tank at home?


Yes and yes.

 

[spasm3]

Planned Parenthood

 

[TallPaul]

These are not oxymorons, but are redundant phrases that drive me nuts:

close proximity
goals and objectives

Here is a ton of oxymorons:
http://www.oxymoronlist.com/

 

[dwendt44]

Country music.

Customer service.


pretty ugly.