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Saint Patrick Patron Saint of Depression: Here to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours Posted Apr 30, 2002
Easy to Assemble
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Saint Patrick Patron Saint of Depression: Here to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours Posted May 2, 2002
sugar free sugar
(apparently it actually exists)
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Runner Posted Jun 16, 2002
The religious right (Oooh, contraversial...said in a Homer-esque fashion!).
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Pinwheel Pearl, GURU, Post Book Reviewer, Muse of Japanese Maples and Owlatron's Thundercat Posted Jul 1, 2002
The Big Apple-not in my supermarket.
Sorry, that was really bad!
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Saint Patrick Patron Saint of Depression: Here to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours Posted Jul 3, 2002
The significant minority
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Runner Posted Jul 30, 2002
apologies for going off at a slight tangent but what's the term for a phrase that says the same thing twice, like "he implicitly implied.."?
And here's a well-known oxymoron - deafening silence.
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six7s Posted Jul 31, 2002
a *redundant* phrase says the [essentially] same thing twice
the driver reversed backwards
six7's 
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Runner Posted Jul 31, 2002
Surely the driver reversed backward means he's going forward?
I'm sure there's a term for such redundant phrases, cf oxymoron for a self-contradictory phrase.
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six7s Posted Jul 31, 2002
Try the [other] pedants at F19585?thread=100569&latest=1 , you'll be satisfied in abundance 
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Giford Posted Aug 5, 2002
I think the word you're thinking of is 'tautology' - as in 'Deadly Assassin'.
Gif 
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- 7: Runner (Jun 16, 2002)
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- 13: Saint Patrick Patron Saint of Depression: Here to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours (Jul 3, 2002)
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