To: Still Thinking; Tax-chick
Thank you, Thinking.
Hey, Tax-chick, check out #43 for some good tautologies.
The ones I could think of are: "Survival of the fittest" (because "fittest" is implicitly defined as "those who survive," so it essentially means, "Survival of those who survive.")
And the old stand-by, "A true Scot does not put sugar on his oatmeal," in all its variations. ("But Angus MacPherson of Aberdeen does!" -- "Ach, but then he's no true Scot!")
45 posted on
03/26/2009 2:54:57 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
“I made a wrong mistake” — Yogi Berra
46 posted on
03/26/2009 3:01:46 PM PDT by
Still Thinking
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To: Still Thinking; Tax-chick
In the other sense of the word
tautology, Paul McCartney's
"in this everchanging world in which we live in"
surely deserves a mention.
47 posted on
03/26/2009 3:03:30 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
And the old stand-by, "A true Scot does not put sugar on his oatmeal," in all its variations. ("But Angus MacPherson of Aberdeen does!" -- "Ach, but then he's no true Scot!")Sounds like global warming.
48 posted on
03/26/2009 3:03:33 PM PDT by
Still Thinking
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