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LANGUAGE HUMOR AT ITS FINEST

Making yourself more proficient in English need not be a drag. You can actually speed up the learning process and make it fun by generously lacing it with humor—but preferably the best that the English language can offer.

In this new section, apart from giving a fixed slot to our weekly “In a Lighter Vein” pop-out humor piece in the Forum homepage, we have put together the finest of those weekly humor pop-ups since the Forum started. The best of them—collected from various sources on the web and sent in by friends—are all here, posted in the Forum under the following headings: Wordplay, On the Job, Student and School Life, and Miscellany.

So if you missed any of the best of the Forum’s weekly humor pop-ups, you can enjoy and savor them again and again here—and better still, share them with your friends!

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A Profusion of Oxymorons

An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined—sometimes with hilarious results.

Here are some prime examples of oxymorons for you to enjoy:

Act naturally

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Happily married

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Microsoft Works

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Holy war

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Found missing

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Resident alien

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Military intelligence

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Minor catastrophe

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Affordable housing

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Near miss

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Great depression

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Canadian army

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Phone sex

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United Nations

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Advanced BASIC

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Genuine imitation

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Death benefits

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Airline Food

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Women’s rights

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Good grief

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Same difference

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Almost exactly

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Sensitive man

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Government organization

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Everything except

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Civil War

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Good kid

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Sanitary landfill

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Alone together

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Legally drunk

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Silent scream

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British fashion

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Living dead

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Small crowd

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Business ethics

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Soft rock

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Butt Head

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Software documentation

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New York culture

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New classic

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Sweet sorrow

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Child-proof

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“Now, then”

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Synthetic natural gas

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Christian Scientists

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Passive aggressive

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Taped live

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Clearly misunderstood

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Peace force

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Extinct Life

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Temporary tax increase

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New and improved

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Computer jock

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Plastic glasses

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Terribly pleased

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Computer security

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Political science

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Tight slacks

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Definite maybe

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Pretty ugly

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Twelve-ounce pound cake

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Diet ice cream

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Rap music

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Working vacation

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Exact estimate

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Religious tolerance

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Freezer Burn

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Honest Politician

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Jumbo Shrimp

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ESL Humor - Jokes for English Language Learners

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