LaoGOH on Vice No Versa | Oxymoron | Pun
VICE NO VERSA
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‘A detective in police farce’ is NOT the same as ‘A defective in police force’
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Accept rejection. Reject acceptance
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Are you as bored as I am? Am I as bored as you are?
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At work, when they need you, you are like GOD. When they don’t need you, you are like DOG
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Before marriage – a man thought he could boss the house. After marriage, he realised he could only house the boss.
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‘Between A and B’ is NOT the same as ‘Between B and A’ (If you are asked to carry out some job ‘between sunrise and sunset’, you cannot do it ‘between sunset and sunrise’.)
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‘Business opportunity’ is NOT the same as ‘Opportunity business’.
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‘Come here devil’ is NOT the same as ‘Here comes the devil’
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Do you earn to live, or do you live to earn?
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Do you have a ‘web business’, or do you have a ‘business web’?
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Do you work to live, or do you live to work?
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‘Don’t! Stop!’ is NOT the same as ‘Don’t Stop!’
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Don’t ‘Add years to your life’. ‘Add life to your years’.
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Don’t count your days, Make your day count.
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Don’t drink and drive! Drink first, drive later.
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Don’t get left behind. Do give right now.
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Drink ‘Evian’ makes you ‘Naïve’
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First I own money. Later, money owns me
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‘Get something for nothing’ is NOT the same as ‘get nothing for something’
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‘God is there’ is NOT the same as ‘There is God’
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God put ‘work in your life’. Are you putting ‘life is your work’?
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‘Having a business’ is NOT the same as ‘having business’
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He is a detective in police force. He is a defective in police farce.
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Human being. Being human.
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‘I Had the run of my life’ is NOT the same as ‘I run for my life’
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‘I love you till the day I die’ is NOT the same as ‘I love you till the day you die’
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I need you because I love you. I love you because I need you.
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‘I thank you from the bottom of my heart.’ is NOT the same as ‘I thank you from the heart of my bottom.’
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Iceland is full of green. Greenland if full of ice.
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In business, if you made it, it was because of ‘Farsightedness’. If you didn’t, it was ‘Shortsightedness’.
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In business, if you made it, it was because of ‘Perseverance’. If you didn’t, it was ‘Stubbornness’.
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In business, if you made it, it was because you were ‘Decisive’. If you didn’t, it was ‘Impulsive’.
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In the past, she said, “A good man is hard to find.” Now she says, “A hard man is good to find.”
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In the past, Solomon was rich because he got wisdom. Now we think all rich people got wisdom.
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In war, it’s NOT ‘who’s right’, but ‘who’s left’.
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It’s NOT Hopeless. It’s ‘Hope less’.
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It’s NOT ‘Useless’. It’s ‘Use less’.
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Kiss your wife good-bye when you leave your house every morning. If not, you will kiss your house good-bye when you leave your wife.
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Last year, we found ‘alcohol in his urine’. This year we found ‘urine in his alcohol’.
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Left brain nothing right. Right brain nothing left.
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Life is not fair. If it is fair, it’s NOT life.
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Look at ‘STRESSED’ the other way around, it’s ‘DESSERTS’.
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Lost of loved ones. Love of lost ones.
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LPPL
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Money Is not Everything. Everything is money.
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Money is not the problem. The problem is no money.
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‘Nursing Home’ is NOT the same as ‘Home Nursing’
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Outside a vacant shop, a sign ‘Exciting Shop Coming’ is THE SAME as ‘Excited Shop Gone’
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Quit while losing, vs lose while quitting
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Racecar spelt backward = Racecar
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Raising ‘standard of living’ is NOT the same as raising ‘quality of life’.
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Read what you love UNTIL you love to read
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RI vs IR (Raffles Institution. Integrated Resort)
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‘Right at the wrong time’ is better than ‘wrong at right time’
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Scholar vs Scorer
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See wife after a hard day in office. See secretary after a hard day at home.
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Some are sound and original. Some sound not original. Some original not sound.
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Sweat petty things. Pet sweaty things.
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Take food as medicine, or take medicine as food.
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‘To die for God’ is NOT the same as ‘to live for God’
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‘Wearing a strapless bra with a strap gown’ is NOT the same as ‘wearing a strap bra with a strapless gown’
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What you want is a business opportunity, but what you have is a opportunity business.
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When women go wrong, men go right after.
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‘You are as bored as I am’ is NOT the same as ‘I am as bored as you are’
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You have work in life. Do you have life in work?
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You make a ‘good living’. Are you ‘living good’?
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Your ‘good time to buy’ is likely someone’s ‘bad time to sell’.
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不同的宗教。宗教的不同
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不怕辣 辣不怕 怕不辣
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不迷信 迷不信 信不迷
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伦敦 敦伦
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OXYMORONS
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Act naturally
Adult children
Advanced basic
Advanced beginner
Alone together
AND THE MOTHER OF THEM ALL
Anything of nothing
Awfully good
Awfully pretty
Big baby
Big Little Lies
Bittersweet
Brawling love
Calculated risk
Cheerful pessimist
Civil War
Clearly confused
Clearly misunderstood
Completely unfinished
Conspicuous absence
Cool passion
Crash landing
Cruel kindness
Deafening silence
Definite maybe
Definite possibility
Definitely maybe
Definitely, Maybe
Deliberate mistake
Deliberate speed
Devout atheist
Escaped prisoner
Even odds
Exact estimate
Extinct life
False truth
Falsely true
Fight for peace
Foolish wisdom
Found missing
Free gift
Fresh frozen
Friendly fight
Friendly takeover
Full-time part-timer
Fully empty
Genuine imitation
Good grief
Good shit
Graduate student
Growing smaller
Happily married
Heavy diet
Heavy lightness
Historical fiction
Holy war
Honest thief
Ill health
Impossible solution
Irreligiously religious
Joyful sadness
Jumbo Shrimp
Larger half
Least favourite
Liquid gas
Living Dead
Loosely sealed
Loud whisper
Love-hate
Loving hate
Loyal traitor
Magical realism
Minor crisis
Negative growth
Negative income
Old news
Only choice
Open bar
Open secret
Optimistic pessimist
Organised mess
Original copy
Painfully beautiful
Paper towel
Perfect imperfections
Plastic glasses
Practical joke
Pretty ugly
Professional idiot
Properly ridiculous
Random order
Real potential
Recorded live
Same Difference
Science fiction
Serious joke
Seriously funny
Shrewd dumbness
Silent scream
Small crowd
Static flow
Student teacher
Sweet sorrow
The sound of silence
Theoretical experience
Tragic comedy
True fiction
True lies
True myth
Unbiased opinion
Unconscious awareness
Unfortunately lucky
Uninvited guest
Unrealistic dream
Upward fall
Virtual reality
Waking dream
Walking dead
Whole piece
Wise fool
Working holiday
Working vacation
Zero tolerance
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PUNS
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Cannot | Cannot
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Change 改变 | Change 更换
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Good news: Nothing lasts forever | Bad news: Nothing lasts forever
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Life is short: 短 | Life is short: 矮
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Life 生命 | Life 生活
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No Need 没需要 | No Need 不需要
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PMS | PMS
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Right way (road,direction) | Wrong way (method)
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Save 储存 | Save 挽救
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Unfit 不健康 | Unfit 不适合
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逃避问题 | 逃避问题
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难吃的都不难吃
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Endless Love: Never-ending love, or 没完没了的爱情？
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I will. But I have no will.
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Be Wise, Or Be Otherwise.
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