Re: KNOCKING THE ARMY-Conversion of NAC w/berets to ball caps

Examples of oxymoron
American intelligence
German humour
British cuisine
Italian organisation
French manners
Australian culture
Spanish efficiency
etc, etc

(PS if any race, creed or culture has been insulted by inadvertently not

being insulted with the rest of us then I apologise for my lack of 
imagination).
John

At 16:50 02/04/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>--- Michael Llaneza <maserati@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what John meant by "oxymoron", so I'm
> > asking: how do you mean "oxymoron".
> >
> > John Leary wrote:
> >
> > >--- John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Considering that the only first-class armies on
> > the planet are in one of three categories:
> > >>
> > >>NATO
> > >>Israeli
> > >>Antipodean
> > >>
> > >-----
> > >This is an oxymoron.
>
>ANTIPODE : A direct or diametrical opposite.
>OXYMORON : A paradoxical conjuction of terms.
>
>Bye for now,
>John L.
>
>
>
>
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