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Started by Ash, February 07, 2004, 06:27:38 AM

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Ash

February 07, 2004, 06:27:38 AM
I was bored tonight so I decided to pop "Flash Gordon" into the ol' VHS player.

I hadn't watched it in at least 6 months or so...I figured "What the hell?"

The beginning of this film contains one of the best oxymorons I've seen in a movie.
On Ming's control panel many different earth disasters are listed as you well probably know from having seen this movie countless times like I have.
The best?

HOT HAIL

Hehe!

If hail is made of ICE...how the heck can it be hot!?

Can you think of any other funny oxymorons in a movie?



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Evil Matt

#1
February 07, 2004, 06:57:45 AM
One should never question the unbridled genius that is "Flash Gordon".


Questioning the unbridled genius of "Flash Gordon" is totally...nevermind...

Everything's funnier with monkeys.

Cullen

#2
February 07, 2004, 09:05:17 AM
Hot Hail.

Now there's an evil genius for you.

Cullen - Super Genius, Novelist, and all in all Great Guy.

The Burgomaster

#3
February 07, 2004, 09:37:53 AM
Not really an oxymoron, but:

In the Clint Eastwood movie THE ENFORCER, they keep referring to a "LAWS rocket."  What they mean is a LAW or "Light Anti-tank Weapon."  It just bugged me that they kept saying "LAWS rocket" instead of just "LAW."



Post Edited (02-07-04 08:43)
"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

Neon Noodle

#4
February 07, 2004, 11:00:28 AM
Cullen wrote:

> Hot Hail.
>
> Now there's an evil genius for you.


Sounds like rain to me!

____________________________________________________________
While on a journey, Chuang Tzu found an old skull, dry and parched.
With sorrow, he questioned and lamented the end of all things.
When he finished speaking, he dragged the skull over and, using it for a pillow, lay down to sleep.
In the night, the skull came to his dreams and said, 'You are a fool to rejoice in the entanglements of life.'
Chuang Tzu couldn`t believe this and asked, 'If I could return you to your life, you would want that, wouldn`t you?'
Stunned by Chuang Tzu`s foolishness, the skull replied, 'How do you know that it is bad to be dead?'

-From The Matrix: The Path of Neo

FearlessFreep

#5
February 07, 2004, 11:02:34 AM
> Now there's an evil genius for you.

Sounds like rain to me!

Sounds like steam to me...

Going places unmapped, to do things unplanned, to people unsuspecting

Cullen

#6
February 07, 2004, 11:04:31 AM
Sounds like something really cold and hard covered in flames, burning its way from the heavens to...

Wait a second.

This is Flash Gordon we're talking about, isn't it?

Disregard.

Cullen - Super Genius, Novelist, and all in all Great Guy.

FearlessFreep

#7
February 07, 2004, 11:07:36 AM
This is Flash Gordon we're talking about, isn't it?

I *was* just starting to think that 'this much thought and discussion about Flash Gordon is just...wrong"

Going places unmapped, to do things unplanned, to people unsuspecting

JohnL

#8
February 08, 2004, 02:38:40 AM
>In the Clint Eastwood movie THE ENFORCER, they keep referring to a "LAWS
>rocket."

Maybe they were afraid that "LAW rocket" would sound like something a lawyer would use.

Flangepart

#9
February 09, 2004, 12:02:19 PM
Or what a lawyer calls he tallywacker.
Hummm....

"Aggressivlly eccentric, and proud of it!"
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