Date: 2005-10-21 01:15 pm (UTC)
It's just English having fun with the language. It's got a lot of phrases like that - for example, "full of vim and vigour". Vim means the same thing as vigour, but if English can say something twice (and with alliteration!) it damn well will.

Erm . . . I am a geek, yes.
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