- Fri Oct 04, 2002 9:36 pm
#29913
Ponderables:
Did you ever ask yourself?
1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3. If a word were misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
6. Why do "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
7. Why do "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
8. Why do 'tug' boats push their barges?
9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?
10. Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
11. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light”?
12. Doesn't 'expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?
13. Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wise guy' opposites?
14. Why do 'overlook' and 'oversee' mean opposite things?
15. Why is phonics not spelled the way it sounds?
16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
17. If the entire world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?
21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?
23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?
24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?
25. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
26. Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
27. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
28. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
29. If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
30. The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
31. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
32. Could it be that all those trick-or-treaters wearing sheets aren't going as ghosts but as mattresses?
33. If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
34. If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him is he still wrong?
35. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
36. Is there another word for synonym?
37. Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice?"
38. Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"
39. What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
40. If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
41. Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
42. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
43. If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
44. Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
45. Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
46. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
47. Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?
48. How do blind people know when they are done wiping?
49. How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?
50. Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
51. What was the best thing before sliced bread?
52. One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
53. Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra?
54. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
55. How is it possible to have a civil war?
56. If God dropped acid, would he see people?
57. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?
58. If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
59. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
60. Whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have a "S" in it?
61. Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "assteroids"?
62. Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?
63. Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
64. Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?
65. If the "blackbox" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole damn airplane made out of that stuff?
66. Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
67. If you spin an oriental man in a circle three times, does he become disoriented?