- By Jim Evans
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SMART TALK by Dr. Weiss N. Heimer
CREATIVE WRITING: Maybe I have a warped sense of humor, but oxymorons make me laugh. Jumbo shrimp. Moral majority. Senate ethics. Family vacation. Organized religion.
Redundancies can be fun, too. Sipping a sarsaparilla in the Fowler Lounge last weekend, Institute for the Linguistically Impaired therapist Verbos Metikulos started laughing at creative writing. "Isn't all writing creative?" he asked.
This started a game of naming redundancies that hide so well in proper speech that we don't treat for them, unlike tunafish. Nurse Clara Dix came up with working mother.
Staff psychologist Viva Palaver topped that with dysfunctional family.
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