What is an Oxymoron?
An Oxymoron is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words, such as 'Cruel Kindness' or 'Jumbo Shrimp' (Jumbo means 'large' while Shrimp means 'small').
An oxymoron term is a literary figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory words, phrases, terms or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means.
Ever wondered how many Oxymorons we use in our daily vocabulary??? Check some of them
Religious Education
Logical Guess
Good pun
Great Depression
American Cheese
Express Mail
Restless Sleep
Clear as Mud
Friendly Fire
Hamburger Steak
Assisted Suicide
Woman Driver (Personal Best)
Fair Fight
Women's Rights (Really ?)
Literal Interpretation
Awful Grate
Conservative Movement
Meteoric Rise
Dropping Like Flies
Out Like a Light
Reality Television
Government Worker ( In India ? )
Long Shorts
Authentic Reproduction
Partial Cease-fire
Limited Lifetime Guarantee
Self-help Group
Civil war
Mandatory options
Common sense
Hot water heater
Adult male
Uninvited guest
Airline schedule
Open Secret
Mideast peace
Dry lake
Silent Alarm
Reasonable Attorney's Fees
Live recording
Non-Stop Flight
Non-Dairy Creamer
Marital bliss
Clearly confused
Wireless Cable
Holy war
Mutual Differences
Legislative restraint
Congressional ethics
Original copy
Act naturally
Found missing
True replica
Resident alien
Advanced BASIC
Country Music (thanks to Cute Kate)
Genuine imitation
Airline Food
Good grief
Same difference
Almost exactly
Government organization
Sanitary landfill
Alone together
Legally drunk
Silent scream
British fashion
Living dead
Small crowd
Business ethics
American culture
Athletic scholarship
Black Light
Chili
Corporate planning
Media scrutiny
Forward lateral
Definite maybe
Liberal values
Good television
Honest politician
Jumbo shrimp
Logical Thought
Moral Majority
Never generalize
Plastic glasses
Postal service
Practical logic
President Bush
Standard options
Rapid transit
Social Security
Sweet sorrow
Union craftsman
Highly depressed
Soft rock
Butt Head
Military Intelligence
Software documentation
New York culture
New classic
Childproof
"Now, then..."
Synthetic natural gas
Christian Scientists
Passive aggressive
Taped live
Clearly misunderstood
Peace force
Extinct life
Temporary tax increase
Computer jock
Computer security
Political science
Tight slacks
Pretty ugly
Twelve-ounce pound cake
Diet ice cream
Rap music (thanks to Gregory Seel)
Working vacation
Exact estimate
Religious tolerance
Campaign reform
Microsoft Works
Bitter sweet
Sensitive man
Freezer burn
Compassionate conservative
Legal principles
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
English - The Funny Language
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this blog, I end it
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this blog, I end it
Aint this funny
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Siddhuisms
Navjot Singh Sidhu is more famous for his exceptional "Jonty Rhodes" like fielding and batting with a big heart against any opponent. But he later had a greater fan following with his own Idioms named "Siddhuisms"... For all those who don't know much about this great Sardar, a few of Siddhuism for all u cricketing and non-cricketing fans
1. Statistics are like bikinis… what they reveal is suggestive, what they hide are essential!
2. Spit on your hands! Take the black flag! And start slitting throats!
3. Wickets are like wives… you never know which way they will turn!
4. He looks like a brooding hen over a China egg!
5. It is very difficult to kill a man who is hell bent on committing suicide!
6. He is as innocent as a freshly laid egg!
7. When you are dining with the demons, you’ve got to have a long spoon!
8. If ‘ifs and buts’ were ‘pots and pants’ there would be no tinkers!
9. The ball went so high it could have got an airhostess on its way down!
10. This team is like bicycles in a cycle stand… one falls and the entire row falls!
11. The scoreboard is running faster than an Indian Taximeter!
12. The batsman is like a three-wheeler. Sucks a lot of fuel, but cannot go beyond 30!
13. The wily fox is back… it is an ill omen when a fox licks the lambs!
14. A big outcry but no outcome!
15. All that comes from a cow is not milk!
16. Just because a rose smells sweet, you do not use it in the soup!
17. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an incoming train which will run them over
19. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
20. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run and midway sent him back and Dravid was run out in the third test against the West Indies at Barbados."Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope."
25. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world, which does not have wings!
26. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.
27. The ball whizzes past like a bumble -bee and the Indians are in the sea.
28. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin a haystack.
29. The pitch is as dead as a dodo.
30. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!
31. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at Rajendra Talkies in Patiala one falls and everything else falls!
32. Indian team without Sachin is like giving Kiss without a Squeeze.
33. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.
34. Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be given a free transfer to Manchester United.
35. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
36. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.
37. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire; ruled Shivnarine Chanderpaul 'NOT OUT' in the second test at Port of Spain T&T "Eddie Nichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands."
38. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
39. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
40. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
41. The cat with gloves catches no mice.
42. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
43. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.
44. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition.
45. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
46. Kumble's bowling at the moment is flat as a Dosa.
1. Statistics are like bikinis… what they reveal is suggestive, what they hide are essential!
2. Spit on your hands! Take the black flag! And start slitting throats!
3. Wickets are like wives… you never know which way they will turn!
4. He looks like a brooding hen over a China egg!
5. It is very difficult to kill a man who is hell bent on committing suicide!
6. He is as innocent as a freshly laid egg!
7. When you are dining with the demons, you’ve got to have a long spoon!
8. If ‘ifs and buts’ were ‘pots and pants’ there would be no tinkers!
9. The ball went so high it could have got an airhostess on its way down!
10. This team is like bicycles in a cycle stand… one falls and the entire row falls!
11. The scoreboard is running faster than an Indian Taximeter!
12. The batsman is like a three-wheeler. Sucks a lot of fuel, but cannot go beyond 30!
13. The wily fox is back… it is an ill omen when a fox licks the lambs!
14. A big outcry but no outcome!
15. All that comes from a cow is not milk!
16. Just because a rose smells sweet, you do not use it in the soup!
17. There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an incoming train which will run them over
19. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
20. This quote was made after Ganguly called Dravid for a run and midway sent him back and Dravid was run out in the third test against the West Indies at Barbados."Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope."
25. The Indians are going to beat the Kiwis! Let me tell you, my friend that the Kiwi is the only bird in the whole world, which does not have wings!
26. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine.
27. The ball whizzes past like a bumble -bee and the Indians are in the sea.
28. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin a haystack.
29. The pitch is as dead as a dodo.
30. Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!
31. The way Indian wickets are falling reminds of the cycle stand at Rajendra Talkies in Patiala one falls and everything else falls!
32. Indian team without Sachin is like giving Kiss without a Squeeze.
33. You cannot make Omelets without breaking the eggs.
34. Deep Dasgupta is not a Wicket Keeper, he is a goalkeeper. He must be given a free transfer to Manchester United.
35. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
36. One, who doesn't throw the dice, can never expect to score a six.
37. This quote was made after Eddie Nichols, the third umpire; ruled Shivnarine Chanderpaul 'NOT OUT' in the second test at Port of Spain T&T "Eddie Nichols is a man who cannot find his own buttocks with his two hands."
38. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
39. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.
40. You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
41. The cat with gloves catches no mice.
42. Age has been perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
43. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.
44. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition.
45. The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
46. Kumble's bowling at the moment is flat as a Dosa.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Know Thy Name
whats your last name?Name is a fence and within it you are nameless. ~Samuli Paronen
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.~William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Sitting in office on a very lazy Friday morning, I got to realize how unfortunately racist some of us Indians are. At times, Office is like the family scene from an Indian movie. Vast Space, local language, coffee table with men talking loud - about Kids, work, family, news from Indian newspapers and websites, and the sweet smell of the Indian Curry and sambar. I decided to listen to some of them talk about stocks,employers,business et all. Sitting with my team in the cafeteria, listening to them talk,I couldn't help thinking,how racist all of us are (Sadly,so am i).
Indian 1: "That Gowda's son from Bangalore got an MS seat in this US university,I tell you its all about the money"
Indian 2: "But didn't he get an average score in that GRE entrance? My sister's daughter got a 1340"I
ndian 1: "Yeppa, that's good no..see that gowda's son got only 900 out of 1600"
Indian 2: "You know, It's all the money from his land i tell you ,His grandfather owns a quarter of the Kushalnagar near their Native place".
I was trying to make a mental calculation of all the property that my family would own....
Indian 1: "My boss - John asks for a lot of commitment to work but I am trying hard to get things done in my present assignment. But Murugan is lucky. His supervisor too is Indian and he is having a gala time "
Indian 2: "Shanmugam right? These south Indian people are so clever.They work less and ask for more holidays, they always say "Chennai ponam - En anna payankhe kaliyanum" (I have to go to Chennai - My brother's son is getting married)
Everyone laughs in unison. I wonder what are the reasons they give when they have to go to India and if anyone would believe them when their nephews and nieces get married in reality.
Indian 3: "Yes, yes, true ,it always better to take these biharis and north Indian people..They diligently work,and are satisfied with whatever they get".
Indian 1 responds : "Reddy is looking for an alliance for their son, MS in finance i think, stays in Houston,TX...expecting a Volkswagen and Apartment in dowry,you know him na.. they own a lot of land in Andhra and his Reddy's father is a MLA in the ruling party "
Well,its not surprising that some of us continue to call names reddys, gowds, iyers,iyengars and rationalize ourselves which is very unfortunate. This blog was neither meant to degrade or insult my countrymen or my country or hurt any feelings.Just an honest observation.:)
Friday, June 25, 2010
Ramdom Quotes from Strangers
Below are some facts I wish people hadn't told me about themselves or spoken. Wrote them down and finally put them together after 5 years of collecting these priceless quotes. Few come from friends, friends-of-friends, friends-of-friends-of-friends, collegues and others from overhearing what others talk in my office cafeteria. They are all real, though I wish some of them were not. My comments go in the bracket next to the sentence
1. I have learnt to eat noodles with a fork. (wonder how they ate before learning)
2. I was fat in middle school. The wake of that horror has yet to subside.
3. I keep forgetting that Barack Obama is our President. Bush is a living legend.
4. I have been pooped on by a monkey. (What if they had wings and could fly??)
5. I am addicted to sleeping at work. Sometimes I don't even notice I'm doing it. (Not surprised why the economy had slumped)
7. One of my collegues once said, "Just because I realize that Asian people are smarter and generally superior level of class does not mean I am inferior. Just that I'm racist."
8. I eat gummy bears by tearing them limb from limb and eating their heads last.
9. A friend in India said, "I can't grow hair on my arms"
10. Two of my best friends are under five feet tall and I have an intense fear of midgets.
11. I think yoga is incredibly spiritual. I know the Lord is with me in my downward dog.
12. I was born pigeon-toed.
13. A kid in a supermarket talking to his buddy says, "I was born with an extra kidney. I wish I could have sold it on the black market and made some money, but it was underdeveloped and did nothing but cause me to wet the bed until the third grade."
14. I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur.
15. A horse once fell over while I was riding it.
16. I don't believe in democracy.
17. Some in the Cafeteria said, 'My friends say that when they shave my back, I purr like a walrus"
18. I don't understand what people see in the Godfather trilogy but I love the Matrix Trilogy
Pursuit of Happiness starts in ME
ONE of the most precious gifts we can give ourselves and to each other is a sense of empowerment. A sense of power over yourself and immediate surroundings. We can give ourselves a beautiful world around us, to wake up rejuvenated each morning and feel on top of the world because you are in control of your day and whatever happens to you. There is a unique joy and celebration in that!
Real happiness can come only from within. No money can get us close to it. When you wake up each morning, consider if you really want to be doing what you are scheduled to do that day. If the answer is ‘no' more often than ‘yes', there is something obviously very wrong somewhere. You are not celebrating yourself or the gift of life enough.
And as the day starts, try asking yourself "are you at peace within?". Have you resolved the inherent conflict in all of us, the constant struggle between the baser and higher consciousness? Once you strike a balance within, it is easier to transfer that feeling of peace to your life as well.
When the joy of doing what you want to do suffuses your life, you will feel an extra bounce in your step and a keener power of observation, a deeper understanding of what's within and what surrounds you. It is then that you will question all that you have accepted blindly so far. You will question prevailing wisdom, bust old paradigms,challenge social conventions and assumptions. You will learn to believe in yourself and develop your own perspective on life. You will assert your own sovereignty.
Your life will be filled with love, bliss, light, inspiration and positivity. You will learn to do the unexpected, to think big, think lateral, think mosaic!
Let us together move towards higher levels of fearlessness and creativity. Let us look at life more for opportunities than constraints. Let us keep shedding limitations and keep raising the bar. Each one of us can be the CEO of his or her own life!
Real happiness can come only from within. No money can get us close to it. When you wake up each morning, consider if you really want to be doing what you are scheduled to do that day. If the answer is ‘no' more often than ‘yes', there is something obviously very wrong somewhere. You are not celebrating yourself or the gift of life enough.
And as the day starts, try asking yourself "are you at peace within?". Have you resolved the inherent conflict in all of us, the constant struggle between the baser and higher consciousness? Once you strike a balance within, it is easier to transfer that feeling of peace to your life as well.
When the joy of doing what you want to do suffuses your life, you will feel an extra bounce in your step and a keener power of observation, a deeper understanding of what's within and what surrounds you. It is then that you will question all that you have accepted blindly so far. You will question prevailing wisdom, bust old paradigms,challenge social conventions and assumptions. You will learn to believe in yourself and develop your own perspective on life. You will assert your own sovereignty.
Your life will be filled with love, bliss, light, inspiration and positivity. You will learn to do the unexpected, to think big, think lateral, think mosaic!
Let us together move towards higher levels of fearlessness and creativity. Let us look at life more for opportunities than constraints. Let us keep shedding limitations and keep raising the bar. Each one of us can be the CEO of his or her own life!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Random Thoughts
What makes a man a man? A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
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