Oxymorons
This computer-generated simulation is abbreviated VR
What is virtual reality?
My personal fave: this type of grape jam bearing the name of a Massachusetts town
What is concord?
First step in making frose: do this to rose wine
What is freeze?
In baseball, you do this to avoid being thrown out as a runner; in meetings, it means to follow up with a person
What is touch base?
In Indochina:
1957-1975
Working security for MLK, George Raveling ended up with the original this of the "I Have a Dream" speech
What is the original copy?
My jam is complicated--it's made from pluot, a hybrid of plum & this other fruit
What is apricot?
To make a Jagerbomb, drop a shot of this German liquor into Red Bull
What is Jagermeister?
In biology, it's all the diverse organisms in a location; in business, it's all the parts of an industry
What is an ecosystem?
In South Africa:
1899-1902
What is the Boer War?
This oxymoron refers to dark chocolate often in about the 60% cacao range
What is bittersweet?
Inna jam makes a "plenty spicy" one from these peppers named for a place the Aztecs called Xalapan
What is jalapeno?
RumChata cream liqueur combines rum & this sweet cinnamony drink
What is horchata?
You can do this to change songs on a record or in business to generate a desired reaction or change the outcome
What is move the needle?
In the south Atlantic:
1982
What is the Falkland Islands' War?
A pattern of negative attitudes & resistance to demands are criteria for this type of behavior
What is passive-aggressive?
My favorite type of this torte, named for a city in Austria, is the one made with raspberry jam
What is linzer?
Frou-frou drink of vodka, cider & schnapps
What is an appletini?
A printing term for an image that pushes past the margin is this edge, more innovative than cutting edge
What is bleeding edge?
In France:
1337-1453
What is the Hundred Years War?
The Metropolitan Museum once issued a metal button as an admission ticket; the colors changed daily in this oxymoronic "order"
What is random order?
My new fave is the jam from the Meiwa type of this small fruit with a "Q" in the middle of its name
What is a kumquat?
Ideally the bottle of beer inverted into a Coronarita would be a Corona, but a different beer from this country will do
What is Mexico?
This adjective describes a mountain that can be climbed or a company that can handle increased sales or workload
What is scalable?
A series of wars in north Africa & around the Mediterranean:
264-146 B.C.
What are the Punic Wars?