Southpaw Jones

George Carlin taught me how to look for redundancies, oxymorons, and other language-based folly.
He includes long lists of funky phrases in his books, and in case you can’t tell from the nature of this here site, I love lists.

Today, I have a brief collection of redundant statements I have heard with my own ears lately.
Actually, that’s not true.
I have heard four of the following five.
Do you care to guess which one is just for giggles?
I’ll include the answer at the bottom of today’s edition.

Here we go:

Redundancies Uttered Recently in the Vicinity of Southpaw!

1. refund money

2. internal gut feeling

3. thinking in my mind

4. deadly game of cat and mouse

5. underlying implication

There! I can finally throw away this post-it note I’ve been carrying around.
Check the end of today’s Gazette to find out which one I just sort of made up.

Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:

I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.
Oscar Wilde

Online Museum of the Week
Cassette Tape Culture:



Rhyme Thyme!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

I don’t drink ale out of a cup anymore. I use this ball-shaped container. I call it my…

Highlight here for answer: [beer sphere]

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• If you selected “underlying implication,” you’re right! I haven’t heard it lately, but I’m sure I will soon. Please whisper it in my ear.