What do these things really mean?

by Lady Lee 4 Replies latest jw friends

  • Lady Lee
    Lady Lee

    an "open secret" said about the Broffman plans for the future

    Isn't that a contradiction?

    "smoking activities" said about a restaurant's decision to ban smoking in the restaurant

    Is there some other activity related to smoking other than smoking that I don't know about. -- eating and smoking, drinking and smoking, talking and smoking - sort of makes a restaurant go out of business pretty fast.

  • Big Tex
    Big Tex

    A "weather event" --

    Isn't that otherwise called rain?

  • cruzanheart
    cruzanheart

    "Jumbo shrimp" * * * "government intelligence" * * * "President Bush" -- oh wait, that last one is real . . .

    Nina

  • Lady Lee
    Lady Lee

    our vocabulary has become infiltrated with oxymorons, words that mean nothing, or people trying to sound impressive by their use of big words they don't know the meaning of

  • pmouse
    pmouse

    'Near Miss" always confuses the heck outta me. Does it mean it was an exact miss or an absolute hit?

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