From math class: A three-sided triangle. You know, as opposed to a three sided square.

This troper once heard something being described as "simplistically simple".

Same troper, different example. Working at Huon FM at the moment, and I saw ''this'': #QUOTE# [1] Jessica Mauboy feat. Snoop Dogg - Get 'Em Girls (feat. Snoop Dogg)

Completely unnecessary, and redundant to boot. [-Note: The [1] means it's the first song I put on my list.-]

Reiko-chan at Huon FM again, and it's a different and more recent song from the same artist: #QUOTE# Jessica Mauboy feat. Ludacris - Saturday Night feat. Ludacris

Again, unnecessary and redundant.

This Troper has many folders in her "My Music" folder. One of these is simply called Music. She's not changing it because it'S funny in a stupid way.

I hate finding this kind of thing in technical manuals. The one I'm reading now has an annoying tendency to re-explain formulas and laws that first appeared in a previous chapter.

This troper used a circuit analysis textbook which said something to the lines of "A non-linear circuit is a circuit which is not linear".

This troper has taken to saying "(S)He was struck with a fatal case of death." whenever anyone asks him where someone has gone.

Watching a program devoted to beautiful actresses, Keira Knightley came up. One of the guests described her appeal as "this sort of... young youthfulness." Face to the palm.

This troper has a friend who, when trying to make a point, says "FOR YOUR FYI!" Which, if we take away the acronyms, says "for your for your information."

In RealLife this troper has some stuff at her workplace labeled "PPE Equipment". For those of you who don't know, PPE stands for Personal Protection Equipment, or on this sign Personal Protection Equipment Equipment. She also lives down the road from the Athletic Club Club (usually called the AC Club by locals).

This Troper recently received a science sheet with the following title: ''Wind is Air is Wind''. Seriously! Here's photographic proof of its existence.

All the curriculum taught in Bahrain is like this. Example: "المسافات البينية الواقعة بين الجزيئات".　Redundancy, purple prose and redundancy.

This troper's boss does this ALL. THE. FRACKIN. TIME.. "We're gonna have an alley run in the alley!"

This troper has heard that this trope is RepeatedlyUsedOnThisVeryWiki.

This troper Made one out of this Trope "Even though its called Department of redundancy department, It Doesnt take place in a Department, even though it says Department

wars}} Will. Carrying a strong will, will prevail in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (Doesnt work for the Europeon version of Days of ruin (Called dark conflict) Because his name is Ed)

This troper has ''personally'' witnessed a redundant phrase at the food-court of a local mall: 'vegetarian vegetable soup'. Upon sighting this, he then sent his companion into gales of laughter by saying 'Good morning! I'm from the Department of Redundancy Department. How are you today, this morning?'.

Sounds funny until you realize that, more often than not, vegetable soup isn't vegetarian. Most of them are made with chicken or beef stock.

A customer once inquired if the orange juice we served was vegetarian. Upon posting said question for mocking on an LJ community, several responses were received along the lines of the above.

This troper once drank a bottle of milk that said "WARNING: CONTAINS MILK". Thank you, bottle, for this important information.

Likewise, it is actually quite common for a pack of peanuts to say "WARNING: CONTAINS NUTS." Overlaps with CaptainObvious are quite humorous.

But...peanuts ''aren't'' nuts!

It gets worse. Some packets of nuts bear the message "WARNING: MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF NUTS".

I've seen a peanut butter jar that said: "Contains peanuts. May also contain nuts."

My favorite is on Almond Joys, you get ALERGY WARNING: Contains Almonds. I would sure hope so seing as how I just bought an Almond Joy and not a Mounds bar

I frequently talk like this, like I'm all like "Dude, man. Is that a corporate building of corperateness I see over there?"

This troper once said that ''TheGreatMouseDetective'' got a lot past the radar because it had, "alcohol, beer and drinking". This was intentional on his part, though.

This troper (editor) found it quite hard (difficult) to read a particular creationist website (internet page) because every other (each second) word was accompanied by (associated with) a synonym in brackets (parentheses), as though the writer (author) had written (composed) it with the excessive (immoderate) use (utilisation) of a thesaurus.

This troper has seen a truck with "Frozen Ice" on the side of it.

It could be worse; imagine bottled water labled "Melted Ice." *shivers*

This troper has had to physically restrain herself from tearing apart menus which list their meat as served "with au jus" because ''au jus'' is French for ''with juice''. She goes out to eat a lot, and nearly every restaurant in her town does this.

Most people think au jus is a sauce and that that is its name.

This troper is eating a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut chocolate bar. It has "Fruit and Nut" printed on the wrapper, along with pictures of raisins and hazelnuts. On the back, by the ingredients list which includes the word "nuts", is a warning label which states, helpfully, ''Contains nuts''.

This Troper has seen a similar thing, on a pack of Tesco Value Nuts -- "warning, this product may contain nuts".

''may''?

Yes. It's a large conspiracy by the squirrels. The nuts might not actually be there, and you may just end up with the unwanted wood chips and bark bits that come off when a squirrel scrambles up a tree. Hence, it ''may'' not contain nuts at all. Might be wood.

Shroedinger's nuts. They may or may not exist.

On reading the above, this troper had to reach for the BrainBleach due to the second meaning.

What? Schroedinger might be female.

Schroedinger's gender? It's more of a male/female version than a live/dead, but it counts.

This troper has a picture of a carrot bag with the ingredient list, which says, oddly enough, "carrots". Thank you, FDA regulation.

This troper saw this happen ''constantly'' when working at the IRS since the U.S. government loves [=TLAs=] (Three Letter Acronyms). Any two-word tax or credit would get a description added on to make three letters, such as Self Employment Tax. But then the description would get added on again for clarity, giving you SET tax and EIC credit (Earned Income Credit credit).

People who work for the IRS are a bunch of [=TMFs=].

This Troper edits government regulations, and sometimes encounters "IAW with current regulations" or something like that. "In accordance with ''with'' current regulations"?

And on the Canadian side of things, the SIN Number, that's "Social insurance Number Number"

A friend of mine takes this further with "Sin Number Number"

I always did wonder when they'd get around to taxing tax.

This troper has noticed, repeatedly, a bag of shredded cheese labeled (on the package) as "Kraft Cheese: Queso Blend". While they are attempting to imply that the blend is somehow "Mexican" (which is ridiculous by itself since the cheeses are Cheddar, Jack and Mozzarella), they are actually labeling it as "Kraft Cheese: Cheese Blend"

While on a road trip, this troper once saw a sign in a store advertising the availability of an "ATM machine", or, in other words, an automated teller machine machine.

Don't forget that you will have to enter the personal identification number number to use one.

This troper has photographic evidence that there are ATM machines at the Fryderyk Chopin airport in Warsaw, Poland because he took a photograph.

This troper, when describing the ''{{Transformers}}'' movie (MichaelBay version), often says (in jest, of course): "It's got giant robots punching each other; Megan Fox; explosions; Megan Fox; Hugo Weaving; and Megan Fox."

This Troper, whilst shopping, found a sticker on a [=DVD=] that proclaimed the movie was produced by "the makers of ''SpiritedAway''!". The movie? Guess.

In a similar vein the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' season 3 DVD contains an advertisement for the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' seasons 3 DVD. I facepalmed.

In the showing of ''TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' I went to, there was a commercial for General Motors (?) and at the end: "''TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' in theaters now!" I lol'd.

This image. That is all.

"Chili Con Carne with Beans." Chili With Meat With Beans.

Which means "chili (peppers) with meat, with beans." As chili con carne does not have to have beans, and chili peppers by themselves do not have to have meat, there is no redundancy there.

A sage exclamation from this troper's best friend: "Horrible women are ''horrible!''"

Longcat is loooooooooooooooooong.

In the same vein, this troper's friend's amazing bit of wisdom: "Brown is brown."

At this troper's workplace, all of the milk crates we use have "THEFT OF THIS CRATE IS A CRIME" written in bold writing along the one solid piece of plastic on the thing. ''Thanks'', crate, I didn't know stealing was illegal.

This guy often spends his spare minutes at work with a Valve Maintenance List list (VML list for short).

On the Nickelodeon advertisements for ''{{Coraline}}'', Dakota Fanning says "It's a fantastical fantasy!" '''Fantastical. Fantasy.'''

This troper's girlfriend mentioned this shoe ad: "GREEK GRECIAN SANDALS: Classic Leather Vintage Sandals, Exclusive Unique Designs".

While watching a LetsPlay of the original ''DevilMayCry'' game, this editor read out part of a description from late in the game. The description in question mentioned "dark evil powers". Her father's response? "They're probably bad, too."

{{Raekuul}} once posted on a ''Pokémon'' forum that his favorite Pokémon were Crobat, Quilava, Crobat, Gyarados, Crobat, Tentacruel, Crobat, Eevee, Crobat, Beedrill, Crobat, Swalot, Crobat, Mawile, Crobat, Gengar, Crobat and Crobat.

Why do you like Beedrill so much?

What other Pokemon gives you a perfect excuse to quote TengenToppaGurrenLagann?

The drama club at this troper's school is called TADAS. It used to stand for Theater and Drama Association Society until we changed 'Association' to 'Appreciation'. A lot of people wanted to keep the redundancy.

This troper once watched a video in a geography lesson that stated "they leave the ice frozen because it is easier to move than wet water."

This troper's CatchPhrase is, "ItSucks So ItSucks."

I assume you're expressing dislike towards black holes. Or defective leaf blowers.

Or Mega-Maid when not on blow.

It's not a PIN Number, damnit! It's just a PIN. Personal Identification Number. Get it right!

Don't put your PIN number in an ATM machine. You might get the HIV virus.

And you might get it PDQ.

This troper was once trying to describe one of her characters without giving away too much of the story's plot. In desperation, she blurted, "She's a female thief girl."

ThisTroper's personal RunningGag: "Oh, did I mention that I really hate X?" a while after he finished ranting about X.

This troper once heard a teacher say, "One single line" when telling people to line up.

One RP {{Quarma}} was in had me essentially posting "Toma is sleeping in Binary's room" seventeen times over a course of two hours.

My parents were out at Taco Bell one night, and my mom wasn't fully awake. So when she called home to figure out what we wanted, she asked my younger brother "Do you want hard or crunchy tacos?" He told her that he wasn't being given much of a choice...

This troper owns a shirt about apparently typical Irish sayings. One of them is "She is a female woman of the opposite sex."

On the side of this Planters peanut jar thing, it says Ingredients: Peanuts, Contains: Peanuts o_o O RLY NAO?

Whenever I am faced with redundancy, I feel obliged to point out that it is "repetitively redundant." Unfortunately, not everyone appreciates the humor.

A wall calendar at this troper's office refers to the day after (American) Thanksgiving as "The Day After Thanksgving Day".

From This Troper's local supermarket's range of amazing special officers:

Bread: £1 per loaf, 3 for £3.

Chocolate Milk: 50p each, 2 for £1.

Justified in that, for some reason, most people can't do simple math, sadly enough.

This troper happens to work in the PID (Price Integrity Department) department of such a supermarket and can explain the reason for this is that the price and the offer are administered seperatly from two different rooms on opposite sides of the planet with no outside communication.

From a translation assignment (about PabloPicasso's painting ''Guernica'') in this troper (0dd1)'s Spanish class: "Picasso no necesito usar colores para hacernos sentir el terror y el dolor. No vemos ni el amarillo de las explosiones ni el rojo de la sangre o del fuego. Todo esta representado en blanco, negro y gris." Translation: "Picasso did not need to use colors to make us feel the terror and pain. We see neither the yellow nor red explosions of blood or fire. Everything is represented in white, black and gray." I don't think it's been made explicitly clear, but it's talking about the absence of color in Picasso's black, white, and gray painting ''Guernica'', by Pablo Picasso, which does not use colors at all.

This Troper's girlfriend was having a discussion with one of his friends where she was talking about a friend in Grade 12, when she said "Grade 12, which is when she graduates".

This troper once wrote an article on {{Soap Opera Disease}} for his anime club's newsletter (calling it SOS, for Soap Opera Syndrome). When the article ran, it was titled "SOS Disease", or "Soap Opera Syndrome Disease".

This troper has encountered this on this very page: you notice how many times a variation of "Peanuts: Contains nuts" has been said?

After walking into a large room, I commented "It's cavernous! Like, you could fit whole caverns in here."

This troper has been known to do this on occasion. The most recent involved describing the utility of using copper wire for jewellery. And what did he say? "I'm sure you could find a more useful use than that for it."

On this troper's bottle of Canada Dry Seltzer Water: "SPARKLING SELTZER WATER".

The packaging for ''Hot'' Pockets contain instructions to "heat until hot". For added redundancy, it then proceeds to warn you that the item may be hot.

I was once accused of being a "sex pervert" on a forum once.

While marking someone's else quiz anonymously, This troper and her friends decided it would be fun to creep out the poor kid who's test I got (who is known for being really shy and reserved) by writing things like "we will always be ~* ~best friends~* ~" with hearts and stars. I ended up putting, "Marked by your BFF FOREVER". Which-- I didn't realize until after-- was repetitively, "YOUR BEST FRIEND FOREVER FOREVER." In the end, though, it was definitely more creepy with the emphasis on forever. I saw him do a nervous look around when he got it back.

Once, in my english class, someone couldn't stop repeating their point during a debate. To which my teacher quiped, "Department of Redundancy Department." to shut him up.

Just today This Troper bought a carton of hard-boiled eggs from Publix. The writing on the carton? "Allergens: Contains eggs." Really? I hadn't noticed!

This Troper, when trying to explain the characters of Dr Horrible, meant to say 'Moist is Howard', but instead said 'Moist is Moist. ' It's now a RunningGag/Catchphrase

This troper has a friend who, when confused, likes to say "What the WTF!?"

This troper recently saw a packet of cheese which contained "queso quesadilla cheese." Translation: "cheese cheesy tortilla cheese." Incidentally, the manufacturer's slogan is "Tastes better because it's made better."

That wouldn't count if you mentally drop the "cheese" at the end. Spanish adjectives and describers come ''after'' the noun, never before, and a quesadilla is basically just a grilled cheese sandwich in a folded-over tortilla. Thus, a better translation of Queso Quesadilla would be "Flatbread sandwich cheese".

This Troper has a habit of saying, "My brain just stabbed itself in the brain because of you," when people say or do something particularly stupid.

A quote from a friend of mine: "She's dead, 'cause she died of death disease."

On a similar note, I will kill you so hard you are going to die to death.

During marching band practice, the director told us that if we got to our spots (in our formation on the field) too fast, then we were going there too fast. Then, right afterward, the trumpet section leader lampshaded it by saying "Department of redundancy department."

While at the mall with a friend, said friend proceeded to ask "Do you think they have a change machine for change?"

Automobile insurance forms ask for the Vehicle Identification Number, or VIN. Though when talking to the agent, they'll ask for the VIN Number.

Oh ye fuzzy Gods, I've come across people that talk like this. Like the Baptist Preacher's sermon format, they'll tell you what they're going to tell you, tell you, then tell you what they just told you. ''IN NORMAL CONVERSATION.''

Came across this word randomly on, what do you know, Tv Tropes for mancarrot/wet mushroom. "Campire." There is no such thing as a "campire"--ALL sparklepires are camp. That's just redundant. *sparkle*

One Electromagnetics problem I've been given at university started with the words "A spherical sphere..."

I was trying to make a great fanfic with some friends, but there was a problem beside the fact that we were a bunch of fourteen year old girls: none of us could narrate properly. The result was beyond awful, but the part that took the cake was something like: #QUOTE# The phone ranged. Bob picked the phone up. No one answered. #QUOTE# Bob: No one is answering!

From my school #QUOTE# English Teacher: This book is shorter than some of the other books that are longer.

I constantly have to fight the urge to hit people who say "at _ A.M. in the morning" or its evening or nighttime equivalent.

This troper once directed, wrote, arranged the soundtrack of and acted in a school play. He also designed the poster. At the bottom of the poster was a warning that the contained "mildly disturbing content, simulated violence, mild profanity, sex, partial nudity, innuendo, more sex, and some sexy stuff".

My fifth grade teacher set aside 15 minutes each day for everybody to just sit at their desks reading something quietly. She called it "SQUIRT Time". SQUIRT stood for Super Quiet Indepedent Reading Time. The entire class, and at least two sets of parents, thought this was hilarious.

ThisTroper once read a comment on a ParappaTheRapper video that said this: He got tired from karate (cool mode) He just got his license (bad then good on last) He selled a skunk (cool mode) He made a cake made of crack (cool mode) He had an acid trip in an acid trip (cool mode)

This Tropette doesn't know if this is universal or unique for her Swedish high school, but when we wrote papers, you were always supposed to begin the paper with a summary were you described what you would write about, then the paper itself were you wrote it, and then a conclusion at the end which was basically another summary where you described what you had written about.

The other day, one of this troper's professors produced this gem: "The text is very redundant. It constantly repeats itself."

This troper has the odd habit of being redundant ("That fire thing is shooting flaming fireballs of fire") when hanging out with friends.

This troper's favorite curse/exclamation of surprise is "shit and scheiße!" which combines DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment with GratuitousGerman.

This troper ordered rectangle-shaped pizza at a restaurant she went to today. When her parents asked about her going to the restaurant, she described it to her parents as "rectangle shaped pizza cut into rectangles." As opposed to rectangle-shaped pizza cut into, maybe, triangles or something.

This troper is often told how much she looks like her mother. One time, a friend, after seeing her mother for the first time, said, "Wow, [Troper]. You really look like your mother and she looks just like you."

This troper's American History teacher said once that businessmen that created monopolies during the Progressive Era "succeeded very successfully" in creating monopolies. Wait a second...

A local restaurant serves biscuits and gravy. A variety of this comes with "spicy chorizo sausage". It just so happens that "Chorizo" is a type of spicy sausage in spanish speaking countries.

This troper commonly finds herself engaging in long chain conversations of groups of people pointing to each other and saying "I blame him!" And it tends to repeat several times...

Can north pole bisexual mammals suffer from mood swings? Because that would prove the existence of bi bi-polar polar bears.

This Troper was forming teams for a scavenger hunt at a university frosh event. Each member who joined added a synonym to the team name. And thus, Team Group Squad Alliance Contingent Coalition Organization Party League Posse Force was born. (11 members, for those counting at home.) The event organizers referred to us as TGSA and Redundant Name interchangeably. All of the members wrote their contribuition on their Frosh shirt.

At a restaurant I went to recently one of the puddings available is brownies. As well as the title of it saying brownies the description says it contains "Brownies, cream, brownies, ice cream and chocolate sauce".

"Welcome to the Department Of Redundancy Department," welcomed the tour guide of the Department Of Redundancy Department in welcome to the visitors to the Department Of Redundancy Department who were visiting the Department Of Redundancy Department and being guided around the Department Of Redundancy Department by the tour guide who was giving the tour of the Department Of Redundancy Department.

On the back of an issue of Time for Kids, I saw Mae C. Jemison listed as a "medical doctor." No, really.

While describing a lab, this troper's chemistry teacher said something along the lines of 'bleach is bleach. It bleaches things.'

ThisTroper was looking at TheOtherWiki, on the Innsmouth page, and noticed the same year number twice. #QUOTE#Lovecraft first used the name "Innsmouth" in his 1920 short story "Celephaïs" (1920), where it refers to a fictional town in New England.

This troper was at a counter fascist rally a week ago and ADL currently has 5 threads in the same section about this on their forums. They NEED a DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment.

One of my friend's shtick is this. Mostly like, " is ." Ex. "Stupid Joe is stupid."

When I'm writing I sometimes have the habit of accidentally using a word twice in a sentence accidentally it was on purpose that time. Usually, I'll go back and correct forum posts that are like this, but once I used "somehow" twice in a sentence, then thought it would be funnier to edit my post and put ''more'' somehow's in.

This troper and goes to anime club at her library on the first wednesday of the month and has a habit of referring to it as "Wednesday is Friday today day"

same troper, different scenario: she once read that the definition of a wheel and axle was "consists of a wheel that is turned on an axle."

This tropers reason for the 60's being the best decade ever are: weed, JFK, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Stones, LSD, weed, beer, hippies,...WEED!

This troper met someone on TeamFortress2 Named wonderBOY boy of WONDER.

"IF YOU'RE DEAD, I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"--HannaIsNotABoysName

At my local grocery store, I saw a self serve tub of peanuts that conveniently stated: "WARNING: May contain traces of nuts."

I once came across a jar of peanut butter which said, "Contains peanuts. May also contain nuts."