Foxes

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:32 pm

Are you sick? Monkeys serve a worthwhile purpose. Who would fix our cars if we eradicated monkeys? The French? No thanks...

Now children ......is this an example of an oxymoron

and is Salt Lake City an example of an oxymormon

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:35 pm

you stand a bigger chance of being thrown up,

Presumably this only applies to animals likely to eat you

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:38 pm

you stand a bigger chance of being thrown up,
Presumably this only applies to animals likely to eat you

and old ladies likely to smack you with their handbags

CB · Post by CB » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:02 pm

Are you sick? Monkeys serve a worthwhile purpose. Who would fix our cars if we eradicated monkeys? The French? No thanks...

Now children ......is this an example of an oxymoron

and is Salt Lake City an example of an oxymormon

Salt Lake City could be termed as an oxymoron.
For those of you who don't regularly read the dictionary in quite the same depth as Duncan here, allow me to educate you. No falling asleep at the back!!!!

OXYMORON:
"A rhetorical figure in which an epigrammatic effect is created by the conjunction of incongruous or contradictory terms"

OXYMORONS:
acute dullness Â· act naturally Â· Advanced BASIC Â· airline food Â· almost exactly Â· alone together Â· Amtrak schedule Â· bittersweet Â· boring court jester Â· briefing Â· British fashion Â· business ethics Â· butthead Â· cafeteria food Â· calm wind Â· cardinal sin Â· casual sex Â· cheerleading scholarship Â· childproof Â· Christian Scientists Â· civil engineer Â· clean coal Â· coal mine safety Â· computer jock Â· computer security Â· clearly ambiguous Â· clearly confused Â· clearly misunderstood Â· comfortably dressed Â· conservative liberal Â· conciliation court Â· constant variable Â· constructive attitude Â· corporate conscience Â· cowardly lion Â· dangerously safe Â· deafening silence Â· definite maybe Â· deliberately thoughtless Â· democratic machine Â· designer jeans Â· diet ice cream Â· divorce court Â· domestic bliss Â· double solitaire Â· educational television Â· effective compassion Â· essential service Â· even odds Â· exact estimate Â· extensive briefing Â· extinct life Â· family vacation Â· fan fatale Â· federal budget Â· fish farm Â· flexible ethics Â· found missing Â· free love Â· freezer burn Â· french deodorant Â· fresh-frozen Â· friendly fire Â· friendly takeover Â· funky white guy Â· genuine imitation Â· genuine imitation naughahide Â· good grief Â· good shit Â· government organization Â· guest host Â· healthy chocolate Â· hells angels Â· holy war Â· half naked Â· home office Â· humanitarian invasion Â· idiot savant Â· ill health Â· industrial park Â· instant classic Â· intense apathy Â· jumbo shrimp Â· justice rehnquist Â· larger half Â· least favorite Â· legally drunk Â· light rock Â· linear curve Â· liquid gas Â· lite beer Â· little giants Â· living dead Â· long sleeved t-shirt Â· loud librarian Â· managed competition Â· marital bliss Â· Microsoft Works Â· mild interest Â· mild mannered reporter Â· military intelligence Â· minor crisis Â· minor miracle Â· misanthropic humanitarian Â· modern history Â· moral majority Â· natural blonde Â· new classic Â· New York culture Â· non-alcoholic beer Â· non-alcoholic wine Â· non-dairy creamer Â· non-working mother Â· normal deviation Â· obscene art Â· old news Â· only choice Â· on-time airplane Â· on-time musical production Â· on-time train Â· open secret Â· original copies Â· original reprint Â· oxymoron Â· paid volunteer Â· passive aggression Â· peace offensive Â· peacekeeper missile Â· plastic glasses Â· plastic silverware Â· player coach Â· player piano Â· polite salesman Â· political science Â· post feminist Â· postal service Â· pretty ugly Â· private citizen Â· qualified success Â· randomly organized Â· rap music Â· Reagan Democrat Â· real potential Â· religious tolerance Â· republican party Â· resident alien Â· rock opera Â· rolling stop Â· rush hour Â· sad clown Â· safe sex Â· sanitary landfill Â· sanitary sewer Â· same difference Â· scheduled spontaneity Â· scientific belief Â· second best Â· sensitive guy Â· serious musician Â· seriously funny Â· silent scream Â· simply superb Â· small crowd Â· socialist market economy Â· soft rock Â· software documentation Â· standard deviation Â· straight angle Â· student athlete Â· study outside Â· successful suicide Â· sweet sorrow Â· sweet tart Â· synthetic natural gas Â· Tame cat Â· taped live Â· temporary tax increase Â· terribly enjoyable Â· terribly pleased Â· tight slacks Â· tragic comedy Â· train schedule Â· trial separation Â· turbo diesel Â· twelve-ounce pound cake Â· unbiased opinion Â· uncrowned king Â· unhappily married Â· united nations Â· unsellable stock Â· unsung hero Â· vaguely aware Â· virtual reality Â· war games Â· wholesome Â· working vacation

Julia · Post by **Julia** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:51 pm

toot · Post by **toot** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:27 pm

vermin / n. (usu. treated as pl.)
1 mammals and birds injurious to game, crops, etc., e.g. foxes, rodents, and noxious insects.

And by that very definition, that makes humans vermin too. Perhaps we should organise human hunts to replace the fox hunts?

Cappy · Post by **Cappy** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:28 pm

Fox hunting should be banned anyway

toot · Post by **toot** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:29 pm

Look two posts of " I ran over a Human " and not one Aaaaaaww poor thing.

the difference being that the two humans run over weren't killed by having there body crushed as they innocently crossed the road to go and see their mother.

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:59 pm

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Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:01 pm

Salt Lake City could be termed as an oxymoron.

..........but that wasn't the question

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:27 pm

Look two posts of " I ran over a Human " and not one Aaaaaaww poor thing.
the difference being that the two humans run over weren't killed by having there body crushed as they innocently crossed the road to go and see their mother.

The fox beeing dead and a fox wouldn't benefit from sypathy the humans would. I hate to see animals suffer and support animal charities over human charities but accept that in nature with or without human intervention animals die. The fox is beautiful and charming mean viscous killer, so I'd never want to kill one and I still eat eggs lamb etc. My experience foxes are quite good at avoiding being run over. You're unfortunate to have hit one.

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:29 pm

Fox hunting should be banned anyway

I still have problems with how that will benefit the foxes we'll still be allowed to kill them.

Julia · Post by **Julia** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:39 pm

Duncan - instead of talking to yourself with posts - can you post what you wanna say in one post only!?

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 12:06 am

I wasn't replying to myself .......just find it can get confusing to reply several post with one .........but perhaps I could be a little more economic

CB · Post by CB » Thu Jul 24, 2003 12:48 am

.........but perhaps I could be a little more economic

.............with the truth