stainless steel frets are smaller...??

Super Turbo Jack Ace Deluxe Custom said:
DangerousR6 said:
Super Turbo Jack Ace Deluxe Custom said:
Well if the internet says it......  :icon_jokercolor:

I've never eaten an oxymoron before, but I have had jumbo shrimp.  They are much larger than the average shrimp.
Hence the "oxymoron"...A shrimp being jumbo...Something that is "seriously funny"...get it? :dontknow:

I totally get it, but it's not an oxymoron to me because "shrimp" is the name of this animal and not a description of size.  It's describing a large version of an animal whose name is synonymous with small.  If I took it to mean jumbo small, then yes.  But who wants a shrimp cocktail with anything less than jumbo shrimp?  "Wow!  These shrimp aren't very big."  In that sense jumbo shrimp is quite accurate.

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Wow. If we're going to delve that deeply into the semantics of it, jumbo shrimp is definitely an oxymoron. Shrimp is synonymous with small because the tiny crustacean was so dubbed due to its size. It is archetypally small, despite how relatively large one variety may be to its brethren.
 
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