An Advertising-Oxy-moron is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words, terms, phrases, concepts, or ideas found or used in the advertising business. It is a figure of speech used to describe how opposite or contradictory words are combined to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means. These Advertising-Oxy-morons also tend to create an interesting portrait of different aspects of the advertising industry.

Accurate Estimate

Advertising Ethics

Agree to Disagree

All Natural Artificial Favor

All you expect from a beer... and Less

Among the first

Anonymous Colleague

Artificial Intelligence

Brief Survey

Briefing (Often a long meeting)

Business Casual Business Dinner Business Ethics Business Lunch Business Party

Calculated Risk

Casual Chic

Cautiously Optimistic

Clearly Confusing Clearly Misunderstood

Click the 'Start' button to Shut Down the computer.

Commercial Art

Common sense is not so common.

Completed Research

Computer Security

Confirmed rumor

Controlled Chaos

Daily Special

Dark Comedy

Day Dreams

Definite Maybe

Deliberate Mistake

Ethical Hackers

Exact Estimate

Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

Expect the Unexpected

Extended Deadline

Extra Ordinary

Farewell Reception

Final Draft

First Annual

First Conclusions

Firm Estimate

Flexible Budgets

Genuine Imitation

Global Village

Going Nowhere

He doesn't have much of a reputation or so I've heard.

Holy Crap

Home Office

Homework

Include Me Out Income Tax

Indirect Communication

Inexpensive Car

Initial Conclusion I'm not going to say, 'I told you so'.

Insecure egos

Insignificant Importance Instant Classic Intellectual Fool Internet Security

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating.

Jet Lag Junk Food

Known Secret

Kosher Anything

Ladies Man Least Favorite

Legally Drunk

Less is More

Lightweight

Limited Lifetime Warranty

Live Recording

Live Television

Local Long Distance

Local Network

Loud Whisper

May I ask a question?

Media Integrity

Microsoft Works

Minor Crisis Minor Disaster Minor Miracle

Modern Classic

Most Unique

Nameless Celebrity

Natural Additives

Natural Markup

Necessary Evil

Negative Growth

Never Again

Never Done

Never Generalize Never Say Never New Classic

New and Improved

Now and Then

Objective Opinion

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them. -- Anthony Haden-Guest

Office Party

Old Boy

Old News

Once Again

One Choice

One Hundred and Ten Percent

One Size Fits All

One man Show

Perfectly Normal

Personal Business

Personal Computer

Political Promise

Preliminary Conclusion

Press Release

Pretty Bad

Pretty Ugly

Problem Solved

Public Opinion

Questionable Answer

Quick Fix

Random Order Random Pattern Real Polyester

Real Potential

Reality TV

Recommended System Requirements

Recorded Live

Re-Creation

Simply Amazing

Sincere Phoney Single Copy

Slight Exaggeration

Small Fortune

Small World

Smart Ass Social Outcast

Software Documentation

Software Manual

Some people say that I'm superficial, but that's just on the surface.

Specialize in Everything

Spoken Thought

Standard Accessories

Still Life

Stop stabbing yourself in the back. -- Judith Briles

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. -- Winston Churchill

Sugarfree (or Sugarless)Candy

Tears of Joy

Temporary Tax Increase

Terribly Good

Text Image

The new Boxster breaks with convention, without breaking from its heritage.

They say it's not as bad as they say it is.

Thinking Out Loud

This report is filled with omissions.

Timeless Moment

Traffic Flow

True Gossip

True Lies

True Story

Truth in Advertising

Unbiased Opinion

Unsung Hero

Upside Down

Useful Oxymoron

Vegetarian Hamburger

Very Little

Virtual Reality

Voluntary Taxes

Wall Street

Waste Management

We are not anticipating any emergencies.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Well-Known Secret

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it. --Samuel Goldwyn We take fun seriously.

White Lie

Whole Some

Windows NT (New Technology)

Windows Security

Windows XP (Extra Performance)

Yes Means No

You always find something in the last place you look.

You're on my list of people that will never make any list of mine.

Zero defects

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