Department of Redundancy Department

This one I understand. People can be so incredibly dense sometimes.

 

Can stand when people say "un-thaw" something from the freezer. Wouldn't that be freezing it?

Also, "Hot Water Heater". If the water's already hot, why are you heating it?



Brian H.

 

And you don't put toast in the toaster. You take it out of the toaster.

 

But... you can put ham in the hamster

 

Can I get a three-fer?

University of Maryland University College.

 

Wow, is that ever redundant and repetitive!

 

The scary part is that it's real.

http://www.umuc.edu/

 

and it's spectacular?

 

"General consensus" bugs.

Also:


I also hate "literally" used to mean "figuratively."

Also, you kids? Off my lawn.

 

How about the advertisements for 4 meals for under 4 dollars. Ya just try to get that deal. Suddenly it becomes under 4 dollars EACH. A case of say what you mean.

 

Well, I heard of the opposite thing: over here in The Netherlands they say "for an apple and an egg" if you sell something very cheap. Some 'smart' salesman put that on a couch in the dispay window. Sure they were obliged to sell it when someone entred the shop carrying an apple and an egg...
There's "D'oh!" for ya!

 

Back to redundancies, I recall (and grimace as I do so) one of my Education Methods professors who kept telling us how important it was for students to "visually see" things. But then, he also though "orientate" was a word.

 

In sailing: knots per hour. (A knot is a mile per hour)

 

Therefore it's an acceleration, right? NM per hour square!

 

Yup!

 

Hours are round; pie r square. Oops wrong thread.

 

When I make pie, they r round.

 

Ain't pi half round? -> the circumference of a circle equals 2pi times the radius?

Yeah, I'm square.

 

My square crashed. Now it's a wrecked angle.