Damn Oxymorons!

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^^(depending on your gender)

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Efficient Public Sector
 
Near miss is the one that always gets me, if didn't hit then it is a miss, simple as that.

Oh and "The exception that proves the rule", exceptions can never prove rules they can only disprove them.

holly35 said:
On that oxymoron list it says "Apple Tech Support" is that suggesting that Apple dont give very good support?
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I think the suggestion is that Apples don't need technical support, they are/were pretty difficult to crash and even more difficult to get access to the lower level processes so in theory at least you should barely even need technical support. Although equally I suppose it could be that they don't give good support, I don't know since I've never had to call them.
 
FWIW, Apple TechSup varies from "excellent, i know everything" to, "i just wandered in here looking for directions".

bonus is there's a massive Irish contingent, so sometimes i call them for a chat :D
 
Sic said:
that's just ironic :p
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It's like rain on your wedding day.

It's a free ride when you've already paid.

It's the good advice . . . </punches kidneys, knockers, ovaries, covers in petrol, stabs, shoots, lights, shoots again, stamps on fingers, rubs broken glass in face, drinks poo flavoured bleach, speaks french, puts fish hooks in eyeballs and jumps down stairs, peels skin and dives in lemon juice, shoots again, stabs in groin, cheesegrates eyeballs, administers magma enema, eats cyanide, jumps of building, shoots again.>
 
"Oh and "The exception that proves the rule", exceptions can never prove rules they can only disprove them."


The word 'prove' in this instance means 'test'. This refers to the kind of process where a sample of metal eg. silver, is tested to prove its purity. So, the quote means that something out of the ordinary, tests the rule ie. proves it to be correct.
 
Borris said:
It's like rain on your wedding day.

It's a free ride when you've already paid.

It's the good advice . . . >
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. . . that ya just didnt take....and who would've thought? it figures

*must admit, bit partial to Alanis Morisette :o*
 
yermum said:
"Oh and "The exception that proves the rule", exceptions can never prove rules they can only disprove them."


The word 'prove' in this instance means 'test'. This refers to the kind of process where a sample of metal eg. silver, is tested to prove its purity. So, the quote means that something out of the ordinary, tests the rule ie. proves it to be correct.
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Cheers for the explanation but in my experience that isn't how anyone I've ever met uses it, it is normally to describe an exceptional event that is unlikely to be repeated which is not what the original expression was intended to mean nor is it correct now. If the rule could accomodate the exception then it may prove it to be correct in all instances but in the vast majority of times it doesn't fit with the accepted rule.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Just reading though that link, can someone explain to me how exactly "Dull Needle" is an oxymoron?
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I'd think it wasn't, because a needle is something with a sharp edge and something dull can mean 'not sharp' - like a knife can be dull. So pretty sure that rather than being an oxymoron, dull needle just means a blunt one. Not a proper oxymoron I don't think. But I could be wrong. And usually am :D
 
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