From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!fluke!vax2:dan
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: redundancies
Article-I.D.: vax2.531
Posted: Mon May  2 10:10:59 1983
Received: Thu May  5 06:33:44 1983

Last year I posted an article asking for oxymorons (self-contradictory
phrases, e.g. "almost perfect" or "civil war") and received a lot of
submissions.  The oxymorons have been collected into a canonical list,
with the really obscure ones weeded out. The list contains 109 oxymorons.
I will mail this list to anyone who requests it, or post it if I get too
many requests.

Anyway, many of the submissions were not oxymorons, but REDUNDANT PHRASES.
Here are some examples of redundancies:

bunny rabbit
color crayons				
duplicate copies
fraternity men
free gift
GPIB bus
inclement bad weather
kitty cat
LCD display
past history
puppy dog
RAM memory (or ROM memory)	
religious dogma
software programs
sorority girls
straight line
true facts
unobstucted view

You can see that many of them have the same "flavor" as oxymorons do.
Others are simply common perversions of acronyms.  If you have a favorite
redundant phrase, please post, or mail to me.  (The phrase should not only
be redundant, but should be fairly commonly used as well, else what's the
point?)

		Dan Everhart
		John Fluke Mfg. Co. Inc.
		{microsoft,uw-beaver,allegra,lbl-csam,sb1}!fluke!dan