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Lawrence O

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Posted: Feb 5, 2010 5:50am    Reply with quote   View Profile of Lawrence O  

Thanks taller8. Let's keep them together with the other ones so here are George Carlin's oxymorons

• Mandatory options
• Mutual differences
• Non dairy creamer
• Open secret (how about this one for magicians)
• Resident alien
• Silent alarm
• Sport sedan
• Wireless cable
• Mercy killing
• Lethal assistance
• Business ethics
• Friendly fire
• Genuine veneer
• Full time daycare
• Death benefits
• Holy war
• Waste of time

Magic is not a performing art where people don't know how situations are reached, it's the art of showing parallel dimensions that can't be reached
Lawrence O

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Paris France
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Posted: Feb 5, 2010 6:50am    Reply with quote   View Profile of Lawrence O  

... and a few more:

• An indispensable accessory
• A devilish angel
• A harmless weapon
• Liberal fetters
• Leader of non aligned
• Stumbling without gravity
• Stumbling block
• Negative growth
• The dictate of the market
• Soft violence
• Tall dwarf
• Small giant
• Clean war
• Intimate enemy
• Ever-lasting life
• Standard handicap
• Anonymously illustrious
• Voluntary tax
• Young elder
• One day, as the night was dark
• Black light
• Marginal center
• Terrifying beauty
• He's dead and gone
• Deadly boring
• Deafening silence
• Focus to infinity
• Virtual Reality
• Original copy
• Quiet revolution
• autobiographic novel
• The only possible alternative
• Eloquent silence
• Invisible splendor
• The voice of silence
• A hole filled up
• You can watch this with your eyes closed
• Without a single word, just say Sim Sala Bim

Magic is not a performing art where people don't know how situations are reached, it's the art of showing parallel dimensions that can't be reached
magicgeorge

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Belfast
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Posted: Apr 28, 2010 8:41am    Reply with quote   View Profile of magicgeorge  

Magic trick

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Lawrence O

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Paris France
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Posted: Jul 22, 2010 11:53am    Reply with quote   View Profile of Lawrence O  

Quote:

On 2010-04-28 08:41, magicgeorge wrote:
Magic trick



This interesting one is a tautology rather than an oxymoron

Magic is not a performing art where people don't know how situations are reached, it's the art of showing parallel dimensions that can't be reached
Merlin Wolfstone

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

- Samuel Johnson
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