what about the words extra and ordinary to create extraordinary, two words when left by themselves in a sentence depict something that it very ordinary or routine, whereas together they turn into something, well, out of the ordinary or extreme
"Awfully good" may not have been an oxymoron originally. Awful used to mean "Filled with awe" many moons ago. Going by the modern definition of awful, a evil person or demon will not find it an oxymoron :P Some oxymorons depend on interpretation.
Jumbo shrimp is not an oxymoron. Shrimp is referring to a noun (the crustacean sea dweller) not the informally used adjective for someone of small stature.
Technically awful means awe inspiring so awfully good just means awe inspiringly good. Its the connotation of awful that you are referring to which is not what the word actually means
Thanks for your help. I have added your video link to my article "The Value of Our Words" on facebook under George Sherry. It does communicate a point of what I wanted to say about oxymorons.
Thanks for your help. I have added your video link to my article "The Value of Our Words" on facebook under George Sherry. It does communicate a point of what I wanted to say about oxymorons.
did he say retarded cattle. that is not right you can't use retard to mean idiot anymore. PUNS ARE FUNNY. My favourite oxymoron ME i'm an atheist bishop.
@lulusinner Look at the second one. "A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education." And regardless of what is or isn't politically correct, he can say whatever he wants. Constitutional rights > societal guidelines.
@TPLF316 just looked it up in the chambers dictionary edition 11, abbreviated 'someone of a low iq, a feeble minded person, will not get a mental age higher then 8-12' nothing about retard and that is the definitation from a damn good dictionary. and i don't care about constituntional rights all that much because i am from england we don't have those rights, but we are big fans of saying when things aren't pc and retarded cattle is not pc.
@lulusinner Constitutional rights might not affect you, but they affect him seeing as he lives in America. Politically correct or not, it doesn't much matter. "Retarded" makes complete sense if you're looking at just the English of the word, the fact that people have given it a negative connotation by using it as an insult doesn't have anything to do with its original denotation. It's still a perfectly valid word.
@TPLF316 wow i meant it as a off hand statement, i didn't mean this to become an arguement. sorry I'm a bit touchy about the word retard because my brothers autistic, he got picked on in his old school because of it, because of his condition he would react badly, in the end the head asked him to leave. He had to be homeschooled for a year. He's now in a good school which helps him but the word still bugs me. I'm sorry for starting this arguement.
Some of the "oxymorons" in the comments (especially, surprisingly, the top-rated ones) are just moronic, exhibiting exactly the kind of "trying-too-hard cleverness" that the video describes.
Pacifist's Gun.
meninbla12 11 hours ago
Here's a good one..."Xbox360 PS3" xD hahahahah
rnburnbutnrwbgnfhj 11 hours ago
Progressive Congressman
rcolepdq 1 day ago
Pretty ugly or cleverly stupid or brightly dim
jazzyover9000 2 days ago
excruciatingly soothing, judas priest, apparently obvious. if you want more, comment on one of my videos
lhiggs999 2 days ago
...General Specific?
BasePiratez 4 days ago
Haha
nipponsoul 1 week ago
JUMBO SHRIMP!
sarahbreee 2 weeks ago
fucking beautiful
stfuimpaul 2 weeks ago
jew nazi
DilutedHero 3 weeks ago
Final Fantasy 5
thefaketimerobot 3 weeks ago 3
People who use oxymorons that aren't really oxymorons KNOW that they aren't really oxymorons. The joke is in the implication.
That's like saying that "autistic Minecraft player" isn't actually redundant.
EmperorFishFinger 3 weeks ago
Bitter sweet
imconfusednow 1 month ago 2
living dead
imconfusednow 1 month ago 2
pretty ugly
imconfusednow 1 month ago
civil war
imconfusednow 1 month ago 5
Obama and Presidency :D
court870 1 month ago
Happily married
kingkadir1st 1 month ago
Brotherly love. (I love my brother... sometimes.)
griffingal9999 1 month ago
night day
TheSwooopppp 1 month ago
EPIC FAIL
MsgTipAndTrick 1 month ago
why did this make me feel stupid? till 2 min ago i thought an "Oxymoron" was a welding term
yogiescott 1 month ago
smart ass
ZurVoLT 1 month ago in playlist More videos from WhatYouOughtToKnow
Frozen Hot Chocolate
rhuber1211 1 month ago
smart americans
thegoonist 1 month ago
I LOVE PUNS! YES! THEY ARE PUNNY! ;-)
TYEDYEGYE1 1 month ago
bitter sweet!
milligansc01 1 month ago
Little big, pretty ugly, Happily sad, Generically original, Originally generic, Blind sight(maybe), Openly linear and Cooked raw
AFalconPunch 1 month ago
what about the words extra and ordinary to create extraordinary, two words when left by themselves in a sentence depict something that it very ordinary or routine, whereas together they turn into something, well, out of the ordinary or extreme
brodeurheaton 1 month ago
J.B. man
paulacpxpto 1 month ago
Jumbo shrimp is not one.
Shrimp refers to an animal not a size.
newmoonrose 1 month ago
Wicked good. Thank you Bostonians.
godbacchus 1 month ago
Microsoft Works
myrandomnoob 1 month ago
Ron Paul 2012. Pure win.
oojzero2 1 month ago
super bad
evildead818 1 month ago
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Dane Cook comedy
EPICsliceOFcake 1 month ago
Dimly lit....Would that be one?
Hitokage571 1 month ago
@Hitokage571 No because lit simply means lighted and dim refers to the approximate measure of lumens.
Did I spell that right?
However you are most definitely on the right track.
newmoonrose 1 month ago
pretty ugly ...
lauraLuff 1 month ago 2
Subscribed!
TheIgothacked 1 month ago
"Awfully good" may not have been an oxymoron originally. Awful used to mean "Filled with awe" many moons ago. Going by the modern definition of awful, a evil person or demon will not find it an oxymoron :P Some oxymorons depend on interpretation.
paradoxical impossibility... is that an oxymoron?
Jeorney 2 months ago 4
idiot savant
LAGG3R 2 months ago
Completely broken
Tyrathius2361 2 months ago
Dodge Ram?
24680kong 2 months ago 13
This is a dumb one but: Smart people.
bbjbbj4 2 months ago
funny oxymoron
Regginyaga 2 months ago
clever republican
Kozukofavatar 2 months ago
@Kozukofavatar answer: Ron Paul
UrSoMeanBoss 2 months ago
"Bieber was awfully awful."
Oh wait, that's not an oxymoron.
m2diggs 2 months ago
richly poor
oMrzubier 2 months ago
microsoft works
JoseL786 2 months ago 5
open secret
bradboy98 2 months ago
God I love you guys.
TheViciousVendetta 2 months ago
living dead, flightless bird, obivious secret (well, i use it)
TheRandomTwilighter 2 months ago
white chocolate .
ColorMyWorldCroden8 2 months ago 3
Rap Music
drsteinsensei 3 months ago 80
@drsteinsensei there is no suck thing as rap music buddy
Seanh2k11 1 week ago
@drsteinsensei penis pie :)
RawNationZ 5 days ago
hahaha he totally thinks puns are funny!!
justinnetzel 3 months ago
Happily Married
Silent Alarm
Icy Hot (patch)
Dry Drowning
childrensplace1 3 months ago
cold sweat
fatblackjesus 3 months ago
living dead
fatblackjesus 3 months ago
Wanted Dead
hardcoreking52 3 months ago
House boat
Primeda 3 months ago
silent thunder
condemnedsnake 3 months ago
Жутко приятно
ZolotoPartii 3 months ago
You should write a show of really weird facts, or phobias.
ChloeTarati 3 months ago
Country Music
ADawsonTV 3 months ago 4
Perfect failure
metfan583 3 months ago 2
incredably dull
Materialgirl1021 3 months ago
same difference
MoneyShotOh 3 months ago 3
Smart idiot, Predictable irony
lukekellycopy 3 months ago
dumb smartass
PIERCE4Freedom 3 months ago
Jumbo shrimp is not an oxymoron. Shrimp is referring to a noun (the crustacean sea dweller) not the informally used adjective for someone of small stature.
marycolleen85 4 months ago
I've seen alot of people on here saying things about "politically correct" which I think should be an oxymoron :D
ForOnceIAgree 4 months ago
@TheJackmano Happily Divorced...
korin300 4 months ago
a bucket of frozen anti-freeze.....lol
TheNat1997 4 months ago
Some Russians say that there are no oxymorons in the English language.
But they are obviously wrong!
Definitely maybe...
ivanborsh 4 months ago
u said awfully good 2 times
TeenageIronman 4 months ago
incredebly dull
yabitchonmydikk 4 months ago
Technically awful means awe inspiring so awfully good just means awe inspiringly good. Its the connotation of awful that you are referring to which is not what the word actually means
vaughnb123 4 months ago
pop music still is.
nge1301 4 months ago
O those Greeks, they have great humor!
LocoRico89 5 months ago
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Thanks for your help. I have added your video link to my article "The Value of Our Words" on facebook under George Sherry. It does communicate a point of what I wanted to say about oxymorons.
MrRideabike 5 months ago
Thanks for your help. I have added your video link to my article "The Value of Our Words" on facebook under George Sherry. It does communicate a point of what I wanted to say about oxymorons.
MrRideabike 5 months ago
Then there's pleonasms: a redundant phrase. They're the opposite of oxymorons, things life "true fact" and "free gift".
jamesivan24 5 months ago
high-speed AOL
FlipCoder 5 months ago
Government Healthcare?
SlipAllCityToy 5 months ago
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SlipAllCityToy 5 months ago
LittleBigplanet.
josh18230 5 months ago
BIGGY SMALLS
pvrome98 5 months ago
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pvrome98 5 months ago
barrak Obama
MrZombieSir03 5 months ago
supporting opposition
ArkLover27 5 months ago
My school just showed this! TROLOLOLOLOL
SuperGamePwner 5 months ago
did he say retarded cattle. that is not right you can't use retard to mean idiot anymore. PUNS ARE FUNNY. My favourite oxymoron ME i'm an atheist bishop.
lulusinner 5 months ago
@lulusinner It's not wrong. Look up the dictionary definition of "moron."
TPLF316 5 months ago
@TPLF316 the definition is very stupid person. like i said he can't say retard because it is no longer politcally correct.
lulusinner 4 months ago
@lulusinner Look at the second one. "A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education." And regardless of what is or isn't politically correct, he can say whatever he wants. Constitutional rights > societal guidelines.
TPLF316 4 months ago
@TPLF316 just looked it up in the chambers dictionary edition 11, abbreviated 'someone of a low iq, a feeble minded person, will not get a mental age higher then 8-12' nothing about retard and that is the definitation from a damn good dictionary. and i don't care about constituntional rights all that much because i am from england we don't have those rights, but we are big fans of saying when things aren't pc and retarded cattle is not pc.
lulusinner 4 months ago
@lulusinner Constitutional rights might not affect you, but they affect him seeing as he lives in America. Politically correct or not, it doesn't much matter. "Retarded" makes complete sense if you're looking at just the English of the word, the fact that people have given it a negative connotation by using it as an insult doesn't have anything to do with its original denotation. It's still a perfectly valid word.
TPLF316 4 months ago
@TPLF316 wow i meant it as a off hand statement, i didn't mean this to become an arguement. sorry I'm a bit touchy about the word retard because my brothers autistic, he got picked on in his old school because of it, because of his condition he would react badly, in the end the head asked him to leave. He had to be homeschooled for a year. He's now in a good school which helps him but the word still bugs me. I'm sorry for starting this arguement.
lulusinner 4 months ago
Boner
XASt4ticLu1labyX 5 months ago
light-sinned black person
luvlyerdj93 6 months ago
Punning!
Kaiser325 6 months ago
patriotic rebel
dink118 6 months ago in playlist What You Ought To Know
Active rest
vikk01 6 months ago
Intellectual property
electromaniacal 6 months ago
False truth.
TheWriter960 6 months ago
Only $5,000,000.00
YellowSpotFungus 6 months ago
Expected Irony
YellowSpotFungus 6 months ago
15 dislikes is an oxymoron to this video, it doesn't make sense but it happens.
YellowSpotFungus 6 months ago
Holy Shit
YellowSpotFungus 6 months ago
Truthfull politician. Yeah. I went there.
thelinkinparkfan504 6 months ago 3
@thelinkinparkfan504 Political Fact
YellowSpotFungus 6 months ago
@thelinkinparkfan504 You must not have watched the video all the way through.
TPLF316 5 months ago
He's a free slave!!!
opoqu 6 months ago
justinbieber good
concam28 6 months ago
Anarchist party
TheOfficialDPRK 6 months ago 12
Free Puppy.
GuitarGirl1718 6 months ago
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LindzexxxSazzy 6 months ago
@LindzexxxSazzy No.
EmilioCasavegas 6 months ago
Non Dairy Creamer
AutomatedCritic 6 months ago 3
Silent Alarm
AutomatedCritic 6 months ago 42
JUMBO SHRIMP
AutomatedCritic 6 months ago
Free gift
mierin25 7 months ago
@mierin25 No, you've got that wrong. See "gift" implies "free." There's nothing oxymoronic about that. It's actually redundant.
kagomeshuko 6 months ago
Smart bomb landing on a high valued target.
secretsofmyenigma 7 months ago
Cafeteria Food
lovesthecity3 7 months ago 3
it's 12:30 p.m, so my brain is fried just listening to this :)
DeathGlareFriend 7 months ago
Biggie Smalls
michaelgrella 7 months ago 5
american intelligence
GibBoy29 7 months ago
These videos are STUPIDLY CLEVER and INSANELY LOGICAL. Such a shame these people leaving comments don't seem to understand oxymorons.
mykltron 7 months ago 5
Apple Cheap
THEBUGUSER 7 months ago
obviously subtle
gbobj 7 months ago 15
I would say these are results of American English.
Dzongka 7 months ago 3
justin bieber
masio13 7 months ago
cold as hell
konahakunoichi 7 months ago 3
i need to take a breath. (LOUD GASP)
vivifiable12 7 months ago
Lady GaGa
ItsDayne1 7 months ago
Strong Caucasian
cballew57 7 months ago
Oxymorons are even fun to drive.....Dodge Ram
gIMpYchUM 7 months ago 67
@gIMpYchUM fail
mastersquash1 5 months ago
white power
Willettes1 7 months ago
I stopped counting at 15 things he listed that actually weren't oxymorons -_-
I like the videos but being informed isn't these guys strong suite
thor123422 7 months ago
@thor123422 ... like about the meaning of suite (vs suit).
Reesoner1 7 months ago
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Larry King Live
nge1301 7 months ago
12 people think puns are funny.
AdamFidler1 7 months ago 3
@TIMoise54321 how are you? its been a while :)
TIMoise54321 7 months ago
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WhispersOfALostGirl 7 months ago
worst best
loud silence
clean brothers |:<
LostWithoutAllah 8 months ago
biggie smalls
AfontBMX 8 months ago
Women's Rights
Johndoe024 8 months ago
my name is an oxymoron
Akbar Asghar ;)
dadvoc666 8 months ago
HAHAHA! youre totally awesome. I think im gona watch all of your videos now. thank you for an amazing time laughing my ass off!
isaedu1183 8 months ago
12 oz poundcake
DJFOGGY100 8 months ago 5
12 oz poundcake
DJFOGGY100 8 months ago
standard deviation
th3giv3r 8 months ago
Pretty boy
RawRLikeABunny 8 months ago
fruit cake
jimdidr 8 months ago
Hot water heating!!
MisterSkene 8 months ago
Rap Music.
RC62Scorch 8 months ago 7
hardly horny
dalsondecap 8 months ago
You can feel that a part if your body is numb...
Jebus495 8 months ago
Jumbo shrimp isn't one...( Just like still moving isn't). "Shrimp" is the name of the organism, its not referring to the size.
roseTypesStuff 8 months ago
holy hell
nosaints88 8 months ago
heres one..........."lets me and you Spend some alone time together"
westpoinrtsmith 8 months ago
Lemon Cake.
Bitter Sweet.
kevine96 8 months ago
happy monday
MrGreenman8 8 months ago 3
Some of the "oxymorons" in the comments (especially, surprisingly, the top-rated ones) are just moronic, exhibiting exactly the kind of "trying-too-hard cleverness" that the video describes.
th3giv3r 8 months ago 3
Your videos are funny and true, but don't knock the puns. Ever.
rootbeerman77 8 months ago
civil war
Jremmiah 8 months ago 9
anarchy rules!!!!
monetbreeding12 8 months ago 2
lovely hate
Materialgirl1021 8 months ago
Dry Ice
Departurefulness 8 months ago 2
christian science
misterdirtyharry 8 months ago 4