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What's a random stranger anyway? I'd imagine that all strangers are random, right? By definition, you have no acquaintance with them, so you can't predict them.

Anyway, I thought it was an oxymoron. Maybe I'm just being random ;)

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By following your own logic, it wouldn't be an oxymoron. It would be a pleonasm.

Pleonasm. That's a new word for me. Thanks.

Not really? If I know someone that you don't and introduce them to you, at that moment they are a stranger to you, but definitely not random.

Good point. My head started hurting while thinking about it. What is random anyway? Arrrrgh!

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