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    Cool Oddly redundant phrases.

    You know, like the classic examples of "hot water heater" and "tuna fish". Which reminds me, I'll be having some chicken bird for supper tonight.

    This doesn't bother me in the least, and I wouldn't try to correct people who use them, even if I were certain that such usages were actually wrong, which I'm not. I just find them amusing.

    Lately, though, when somebody asks if two objects are "both the same", I haven't been able to resist saying "no, one's the same and the other is different". Just to see if they get the point.

    Well, I think I may have said it twice.
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