History Main / OxymoronicBeing

** What's wrong with being scotch-korean? People have two parents...
*** Yeah, the UnfortunateImplications were ''not'' lost on real life Scottish folk of Asian descent. At all.

** The griffin is itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. Thus a hippogriff is a one-quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

* ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': Handi-man is a quadraplegic superhero with the power to move like an able-bodie person.

* An episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' mentions the spider-fly, which commonly gets caught in its own web. Noted in the [[DVDCommentary creator commentary]] as "the most paradoxical animal in the world of Avatar."

** To be fair, [[{{Pettanko}} small tits can be great.]]

* ''SheepInTheBigCity'' has military characters with {{Punny Name}}s: General Specific, Private Public, Major Minor (who is a baby) and Corporal Ethereal (a hippy).

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', Kisame's person amount of [[{{Mana}} chakra]] is great enough to draw comparisons to the [[EnergyBeings Tailed Beasts]], the local {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and thus he has given the oxymoronic nickname "The Tailed Beast Without a Tail[[hottip:*:This sounds slightly less stupid in Japanese, as there the words for "tail" and "tailed (beast)" are much more different.]]". To make this even more hilarious, in spite of his nickname [[spoiler:when he fuses with Samehada he ''does'' have a tail(fin), though it's possible that those don't "count" as tails in Japanese.]]

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', Kisame's person amount of [[{{Mana}} chakra]] is great enough to draw comparisons to the [[EnergyBeings Tailed Beasts]], the local {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and thus he has given the oxymoronic nickname "The Tailed Beast Without a Tail[[hottip:*:This sounds slightly less stupid in Japanese, as there the words for "tail" and "tailed (beast)" are much more different.]]". To make this even more hilarious, in spite of his nickname [[spoiler:when he fuses with Samehada he ''does'' have a tail(fin).]]

* Skittles had been running advertisements with people like this for a while, including a scotch korean, and an albino lifeguard.

** In German, you can use "sau" (sod, sow, pig) to emphasize pretty much every adjective you like. Yes, it's perfectly reasonable calling food to taste "soddy good".

* In ''ThePhantomTollbooth'', Milo meets an average-looking man who claims to be both "the smallest giant in the world" and "the tallest midget in the world". He's also the thinnest fat man and the fattest skinny guy.

* Similarly, there's a species of tailless bat that has a tail, so it's called the tailed tailless bat. It's scientific name is ''Anoura caudifera'', which means "tail-bearing tailless one".

* In mathematics, the number Two (2) is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number highly composite]][[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number prime number]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgo4tPIjvk Korean-Scots, eating Starburst, waving at the Albino Lifeguard, Timmy.]] Well, [[http://www.angryasianman.com/2009/06/starbursts-scottishkorean-contradiction.html not really]]. [[UnfortunateImplications We hope.]]
** Albeit still seems weird to White Americans that Asians are just as capable of being many nationalities as they are, there is still a certain amount of humor in this. Both places used are where ethnicity and nationality are one and the same. "Everyone" in Scotland is Scottish. "Everyone" in the Koreas is Korean. So, a Korean living in Scotland, acting absurdly Scottish, really is oxymoronic.

* In ''ThePhantomTollbooth'', Milo meets an average-looking man who claims to be both "the smallest giant in the world" and "the tallest midget in the world". He's also the thinnest fat man and the fattest skinny guy, as I recall.

* Due to his being adopted, Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson of ''{{Discworld}}'' is a dwarf who stands at 6 feet 3 inches in his socks.
** Interesting subversion: the ''other'' dwarfs accept him as one of them because he is devoutly observant of their traditions and even tries to teach his girlfriend to speak Dwarfish. He's just a ''tall'' dwarf.

** Ah, but the griffin is itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. Thus a hippogriff is a one-quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
*** Well, then, obviously you have to mate a half-horse, half lion with a half-horse, half eagle. Problem solved.

* An episode of AvatarTheLastAirbender mentions the spider-fly, which commonly gets caught in its own web. Noted in the [[DVDCommentary creator commentary]] as "the most paradoxical animal in the world of Avatar."

* A feature of the Swedish language. It makes total sense to Swedes (and no one else) to describe something as "gigantically small"

** Simple. It combines faith and logic: we logically know It is invisible, for we can't see It, but we have faith It is pink.
** The argument is a rebuttal to the "You can't prove it doesn't exist" informal fallacy that purportedly defends a number of claims, some religious, some secular. It's also a rebuttal to descriptions of God purported as having mutually exclusive characteristics.
** It can also be rendered as a bitmap with the color value set to "pink" and the transparency value set to 100%.
** Maybe it's invisible because it's really small? Or lives in a country where everything else is pink?
** Then how could you tell it's a unicorn if everything is pink?

* From JamesThurber's ''The13Clocks'':
-->"If you can slay the Thorny Boar of Borythorn, the princess will be yours," said the man. "But there is no Thorny Boar of Borythorn, so that makes it difficult."

* The ''{{Spelljammer}}'' setting in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' has enormous hamsters living between the worlds, appropriately known as giant space hamsters. There's also a lesser-known tiny variety, the miniature giant space hamster, which for most intents and purposes is merely a hamster. (They're best known for appearing in ''BaldursGate'', in which one character had one as a pet.)

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* Minsc's ''miniature giant space hamster'' from ''BaldursGate'' was the size of a normal rodent. And its name was Boo.

** The triple demons of Compromise are described as "one fat, one thin, and a third exactly like the other two."
*** So, one of them accepts who they are, one is in denial, and the third is as fat as the other two?