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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Some more random thoughts

I ran across these recently and wanted to share...I know its a looooong list but there are some good ones on it!!!!

If the sky is the limit, then what is space, over the limit?

Are children who act in rated ‘R’ movies allowed to see them?

When French people swear do they say pardon my English?

Aren’t the ‘good things that come to those who wait’ just the leftovers from the people that got there first?

If the swat team breaks down your door do they have to replace it later?

Can it be cloudy and foggy at the same time?

“Cute as a button” Is that supposed to be a compliment? Since when are buttons cute?

Can you breathe out of your nose and mouth at the same time?

Are marbles made of marble?

Why does the last piece of ice always stick to the bottom of the cup?

If you pay for a vacation and your plane crashes on the way there, do you get you money back? (Granted you lived)

Why did Yankee Doodle name the feather in his hat Macaroni?

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, “I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things here and drink what comes out”?

Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken over there … I’m gonna eat the first thing that comes out if its butt”?

Isn’t Disney World just a people trap operated by a mouse?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet soup?

Can you get cornered in a round room?

Why do we wash behind our ears? Who really looks there?

Why don’t the hairs on your arms get split ends?

If an atheist has to go to court, do they make him swear on the Bible?

Why is it illegal to park in a handicapped parking space but its ok to use a handicapped toilet?

How come we say ‘It’s colder than hell outside’ when isn’t it realistically always colder than hell since hell is supposed to be fire and brimstone?

Why is it that if something says, “do not eat” on the packaging it becomes extra tempting to eat?

Why are people so scared of mice, yet we all love Mickey Mouse?

Wouldn’t it be smart to make the sticky stuff on envelopes taste like chocolate?

Why are the commercials for cable companies on cable but not on regular television? Don’t they want the people without cable to buy the cable?

Isn’t it funny how the word ‘politics’ is made up of the words ‘poli’ meaning ‘many’ in Latin, and ‘tics’ as in ‘bloodsucking creatures’?

Why is it that when things get wet they get darker, even though water is clear??

What happens if you put this side up face down while popping microwave popcorn?

Why is chopsticks one of the easiest songs to play on the piano, but the hardest thing to eat with?

How come you play at a recital, but recite at a play?

If a fork were made of gold would it still be considered silverware?

If heat rises, then shouldn’t hell be cold?

Why is there that little space inside strawberries, as if it was meant for a pit, and then the seeds are on the outside?

Why isn’t chocolate considered a vegetable, if chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and all beans are a vegetable?

Why is toilet bowl cleaning liquid only blue?

Why is it when we talk to God we are praying, but when God talks to us we are put into the loony bin?

Why do you go “back and forth” to town if you really must go forth before you go back?

Why does shaped macaroni taste better than the normal kind?

Why is vanilla ice cream white when vanilla extract is brown?

Why can’t you get a tan on your palms?

If your sick for one week and on one of those days they had to cancel school because of snow, do you have to make up that day in June?

Why do dogs sniff other dog’s bottoms to say hello, why don’t they just bark in their face or something?

Why do companies offer you “free gifts?” Since when has a gift NOT been free?

If something “goes without saying,” why do people still say it?

You know the expression, “Don’t quit your day job?” Well what do you say to people that work nights?

Why do you get in trouble for blocking an exit when you’re standing in the doorway? In case of an emergency, wouldn’t you run out, too, therefore NOT blocking the exit?

Why is it when some products you have to turn it upside down to read the directions, and the directions say do not turn upside down?

Why is a square meal served on round plates?

Why is the 0 on a phone after 1 and not before 1?

Which way does a compass point in space?

Why are people allowed to put naked statues outside but why can’t we run outside naked?

Why do all superheroes wear spandex?

Why can’t a baby cry while it’s inside its mother?

If the president were gay, would his husband be the first man?

If you were a genie and a person asked you this wish, “I wish you would not grant me this wish” what would you do?

What happens if your snot freezes in your nose?

Why aren’t safety pins as safe as they say they are?

If overalls are held up by the snaps at the top, then why do they have belt loops?

Why is it that its good to score under par in golf but its bad to be “under par” in any thing else?

Why do people say, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”? Why would someone get cake if they can’t eat it?

How come popcorn isn’t a vegetable?

Do movie producers still say lights, camera, and action when it is a dark scene?

Did Noah have woodpeckers on the ark? If he did, where did he keep them?

Why is Charlie short for Charles if they are both the same number of letters?

Why is snow white and ice clear? Aren’t they just different forms of water?

Why do they put the names of football teams on baseball caps?

How come you pay an extra 25 cents to get something put on your hamburger but they don’t take off the price if you get something taken off?

If you were under house arrest and you lived in a mobile home, wouldn’t you be able to go anywhere you want?

If our body temperature is normally 98.6 degrees, how come when it’s 98 degrees outside, no one is comfortable?

What would happen if you were to feed a pig some bacon?

If scientists were ever going to figure out how to travel through time, wouldn’t we now be seeing people from the future?

Do pyromaniacs wear blazers?

If you don’t pay your exorcist, do you get repossessed?

How come only car keys are the only keys with teeth on both sides?

Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?

Why is it the TWELVE days of Christmas when there is only one day of Christmas?

When something’s funny why is it called a “knee-slapper” when you actually slap your thigh?

Why is it that when babies are born they only weigh like 7 lbs yet the mom weighs 30 lbs more?

Since a running back runs forward, why is he called a running back?

If you die and you have a broken leg do they take the cast off?

Is sign language the same in languages other than English?

Why is “number” abbreviated as “no”? When there is no “o” in number?

Why do they call the small candy bars the “fun sizes”? Wouldn’t be more fun to eat a big one?

Do the security guards at airports have to go through airport security when they get to work?

Why do we teach kids that violence is not the answer and then have them read about wars in school that solved America’s problems?

Who gets to keep the pennies in a wishing well?

If money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches?

Why is Donkey Kong called “DONKEY” Kong if he’s a monkey?

If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?

Do the air bubbles that are created when you fart in water, smell when they pop?

When a boy is named after his dad, he is called ‘Junior,’ but what do you call a girl that is named after her mother?

Does Hawaiian Punch come from Hawaii?

If your name is Mr. Crunch, and you joined the Navy, would you eventually be Captain Crunch?

Can you cry under water?

If all of the Acme stuff doesn’t work, why does Wile Coyote keep buying their products?

364 days of the year, parents tell their kids not to take candy from strangers, yet on Halloween, its encouraged! Why is that ?

Why is it when we laugh in school the teachers say do you find something funny? When obviously we do?

Why do you have to “put your two cents in” but it’s only a “penny for your thoughts”? Where’s that extra penny going too ?

Why do people call it an ATM machine, but they know it’s really saying Automated Teller Machine Machine?

Why do people say PIN number when that truly means Personal Identification Number Number?

Why is Christmas colors red and green when Santa’s suit is red and white?

Why do you DELETE something on the computer, but ERASE something on paper?

Since there is a rule that states “i” before “e” except after “c”, wouldn’t “science” be spelled wrong?

If the handicapped bathrooms are for people who cant walk why do they put them at the end of the bathrooms ?

Why is it that on the back of a medicine bottle it says “adult” is 12 and above, but the adult age in reality is 18?

Why do most people put more effort into their wedding than their actual marriage?

Why do dogs walk around in circles before lying down?

Can a metal plate in your head get rusted?

Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

How come you can kill a deer and put it on your wall but it’s illegal to keep them as a pet?

Can someone give up lent for lent?

Why would Dodge make a car called Ram?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

Why is it when we duck they call us chicken?

Why is there a size 12-14, 14-16, 16-18, and so forth, but no 13, 15, and 17?

If CD’s were spun in the opposite direction, would it say everything backwards?

If lava melts rock, wouldn’t the lava melt the volcano?

Why do people say, “you’ve been working like a dog” when dogs just sit around all day?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why is it that when we are humming and then we plug our nose, our humming stops? Do people really hum through their nose, or their mouths?

Can you blow a balloon up under water?

How do they get the air inside the bubble wrap?

Why are there black lines on a basketball?

Why are there pictures of the sun wearing sunglasses when the purpose of sunglasses is to protect your eyes from the sun?

If you were born exactly on 12:00 midnight on December 31st – January 1st, which year would you say you were born in?

If marriage means you fell in love, does divorce mean you climbed out?

Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed?

If you are parking somewhere and the signs in front of the parked cars say “30 minutes” then when your 30 minutes are up can you park in the spot right next to you??

Why isn’t the word ‘gullible’ in the dictionary?

When you see the weather report and it says “partly cloudy” and then the next day it says “partly sunny”; what’s the difference?


Why are women and men’s shoe sizes different?

If you took a compass to outer space would it still point “magnetic north”? Is there still a north, south, east, and west in space?

Do people with big eyes see at a wider range than people with smaller eyes?

Do you ever notice those red balls on the wires while your driving? Well what are they for?

Why is the St. Louis baseball team the cardinals, but the Missouri state bird is the blue bird?

Why are public toilet seats never complete ovals?

Why do we have to wait till the water starts boiling before we can put pasta into the water?

If a criminal turns himself in shouldn’t he get the reward money?

Why do police officers wear tight clothes and dressy shoes? wouldn’t that make them slower when chasing someone?

If London Bridge is standing why is there a song about it falling down?

Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up like every two hours?

Why do birds bob their heads when they walk?

Why is it when we ask for the check in a restaurant they bring us a bill?

How come wine and hard liquor doesn’t come in cans, but beer does?

When lightning strikes the ocean why don’t all the fish die?

If people say if you eat dessert before dinner it will ruin your appetite won’t eating dinner before dessert ruin your appetite for dessert?

Why do they call him a Skipper when he just stands there?

Why does “lake” come first (Lake Michigan) and “river” come second (Mississippi River)?

If I raise the volume on my radio, does it use more electricity?

What would happen if: Everyone was to flush their toilet at the same time?

If the weather man says “it’s a 50% chance of rain” does that mean he has no idea if its going to rain or not?

If you drink Pepsi at work in the Coke factory, will they fire you?

When you snap your fingers, does the sound occur when your middle finger releases from your thumb, or when your middle finger hits the palm of your hand?

Why are you IN a movie, but your ON TV?

Can’t anybody who has a job go in the “employees only” doors at restaurants? Shouldn’t they be more specific and say “employees of this place only”?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

If the police see some one committing a crime but are on there way to investigate a crime do they stop or go to the one they were on their way to?

If shampoo comes in so many colors, why is the lather on your head always white?

If our planet is inhabited with creatures made by God…is it possible that there’s another planet inhabited with creatures made by the Devil?

How come, in the Mini Wheat’s commercials, Sweets has a Brooklyn accent and Wheat’s has an English accent? They’re attached at the back, wouldn’t they have been raised in the same place?

Why do people, such as S.W.A.T or Seals wear the bulletproof vests where you can see them? Wouldn’t people aim for their head or crotch?

How come stealing from one book is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research?

Can you fart and burp at the same time?

If two identical twin brothers married identical twin sisters, would there kids be identical?

If your glove is too big, does it still fit like a glove?

Is it possible to scream at the bottom of your lungs?

If you can test drive cars at the dealer’s, why not test-drive lawnmowers around at a hardware store?

Is there anything easier done than said?

If no one buys a ticket to a movie, does the movie still play?

Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway?

Why is that when fish die in water, they float to the top, but when humans die in water, they sink to the bottom?

Why do they call it “morning sickness” in the middle of the afternoon?

If money is the root of all evil then how come churches ask for it?

Can vampires donate blood?

If a fire truck was on its way to a fire and it passes another fire, which fire would it go to?

If you could walk through the walls, wouldn’t you fall through the floor?

How come when you go in the front door of a church, you are at the back of the church, and if you go in the back door, you would end up in the front of the church?

If your named Will and you are in the army do you get worried when people say fire at will?


If you eat regular rice crispies with chocolate milk will it taste the same as eating co-co crispies with regular milk?

Why is Bra singular and Panties plural?

What are those little things on the end of your shoelaces called?

When you open a new bag of cotton balls, are you supposed to throw the top one away?

If they develop a supersonic train, will they give it a whistle?

Why can’t we sneeze with our eyes open?

If there were a knowledge contest, would the female winner be called Miss Informed?

If you stick on stickers on non-stick pans, would they stick on?

On a hamburger bun, why is the top bun always bigger than the bottom one?

Why does breaking a mirror mean seven years of bad luck when seven is a lucky number??

If I think, and therefore I am, am I just a thought?

If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?

Is it possible to do stand-up comedy sitting down?

What does the T in T-Shirt really mean?

Why does the label on children’s Tylenol tell you not to operate heavy machinery or vehicles when it’s for CHILDREN!?

Why do they call front seat shotgun?

Do bald men wash their head with soap or shampoo?

Why are there dents in a golf ball?

Why are the obituaries found in the “living” section of the newspaper?

How can someone be dirt poor, and another be filthy rich?

When you put ‘THE’ and ‘IRS’ together, it forms ‘THEIRS’. Coincidence? I think not?

What would happen if you put a humidifier and a dehumdifier in the same room?

How can sweet and sour sauce be sweet and sour at the same time?

If you get cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do you complain to?

Why do black olives come in cans and green olives come in jars

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a picture of a thousand words worth?

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

If rabbits’ feet are so lucky, then what happened to the rabbit?

What happens to an 18 hour bra after 18 hours?

What if you’re in hell, and you’re mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?

Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?

If your plan is having no plan, do you have a plan?

If the energizer bunny attacks someone, is he charged with battery?

If a baseball is hit out of the stadium, travels completely around the world, re-enters the stadium, and is caught by a fielder, is it a home run or an out?

If a policecar, an ambulance, a fire truck and a mail truck are all at a 4 way stop who has the right away?

Are there female leprechauns?

Do fish sleep?

Would it be possible for a solar car to travel faster then the speed of light?

Isn’t it scary that the word “therapist” is the same as the words “the” and “rapist” put together?

On a telephone, why does ABC start on the number 2 and not 1?

Why do radio operators say “niner” instead of just “nine”?

Why do people say heads up when you should duck?

Why did Superman wear his briefs on the outside of his tights?

Why do they call the clock where you punch your time card called a “time” clock? Aren’t all clocks “time” clocks?

Why does blow and suck mean the same thing when we describe something being crap?

If you are born on February 29 of a leap year, when is your birthday?

Do birds pee?

Why do they call it 2% milk, if its 2% fat, not milk?

What do you say when someone says you’re in denial, but you’re not?

If you had x-ray vision, but closed your eyes, could you still see?

Have you ever thought what life would be like if your name was Anonymous? You’d get credit for everything nobody wanted credit for?

If a water spins clockwise when it drains in the northern hemisphere, and water spins counterclockwise when it drains in the southern hemisphere…which way does it spin at the equator?

If you own a piece of land and there is an volcano on it and it ruins a nearby town, do you have to pay for the property damage?

If you have x-ray vision, and you can see through anything, wouldn’t you see through everything and actually see nothing?

If it is a 50 mph per hour wind and you drive your car at 50mph downwind, if you stick your head outside would you feel the wind?

Why does “closing up” a shop and “closing down” a shop mean the same thing?

Why do they call them “Animal Crackers” when there not even crackers…they’re cookies?

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

Why in baseball is it called the World Series if it is only played in the U.S.A & Canada?

Why does caregiver and caretaker mean the same thing?

In some books, why do they have blank pages at the very end?

If you were on a plane going the speed of sound and walked from the back of the plane to the front, would you be walking faster than the speed of sound?

What does OK actually mean?

what does the K in K-mart actually stand for?


If you’re caught “between a rock and a hard place”, is the rock not hard?

If one man says, “it was an uphill battle,” and another says, “it went downhill from there,” how could they both be having troubles?

Why is it you can walk down a road, even if it goes uphill?

Why do we say “bye bye” but not “hi hi”?

Why do the call the angel of death an angel if all it does is bring pain and suffering?

Why doesn’t the glue in the bottle dry up?

If you decide that you’re indecisive, which one are you?

Why is it we have the weight of the world on our shoulders but have to get it off our chests?

Why does everyone speak different languages and have different accents if we all originally came from the same place?

If you tell someone they are being judgmental aren’t you being judgmental yourself?

Why do they call it your “bottom”, when it’s really in the middle of your body?

How come no matter what color the liquid is the froth is always white?

Why do they call them guidance counselors when all counselors do is offer guidance?

Why do they call it “head over heels in love” If our head is always over our heels?

If someone can’t see, they’re blind and if someone cant hear, they’re deaf, so what do you call people who can’t smell?

How do they get those boats in those glass bottles?

Why would superman want to leap over the tallest building in a single bound if he can fly?

Why is it called a TV set when there is only one?

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

Why do they call it an escalator if it takes you down?

How come some Little Debbie snack cakes come in a twin pack and others are wrapped individually?


If a person owns a piece of land do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?

Since we see little birdies when we just get knocked out, what do little birdies see when they just get knocked out??

What is a male ladybug called?

Why are semi-trucks bigger than regular trucks?

Why is an alarm clock going “off” when it actually turns on?

Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?

Does the President have to pay taxes?

If Dracula has no reflection, how comes he always had such a straight parting in his hair?

Why is Grape Nuts cereal called that, when it contains neither grapes, nor nuts?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

Why do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?

Isn’t it kind of ominous to put your tax returns in the mail box and put up the little red flag?

What ever happened to an E grade? We have A,B,C,D,F but no E.

Don’t you find it worrying that doctors call treating you their “practice” ?

Do they have the word “dictionary” in the dictionary?

What do you call a female daddy long legs?

If croutons are stale bread, why do they come in airtight packages?

Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

If a transport truck carrying a load of cars gets into a car accident, does it increase the number of the cars in the pile-up?

In France do people just ask for toast and get French toast? or do they have to ask for American toast?

Why is it called a “drive through” if you have to stop?

Why does mineral water that has “trickled through mountains for centuries” go out of date next year?


Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would eat?

Why is it that lemon dishsoap is made with real lemons, but lemon juice is artificial flavoring?

If you stole a pen from a bank then would it still be considered a bank robbery?

Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

Why can magicians make things disappear into thin air, but not thick air?

Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?

Why is the third hand on the watch called second hand?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

What do people in China call their good plates?


Do the minutes on the movie boxes include the previews, credits, and special features, or just the movie itself?

If the professor on Giligan’s Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can’t he fix a hole in a boat?

Why is it that cargo is transported by ship while a shipment is transported by car?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but people don’t point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?

Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up “there” anyway?

If somebody vanished without a trace, how do people know they are missing?

Why are boxing rings square?

Why is it called pineapple, when’s there neither pine nor apple in it?

Why is it called eggplant, when there’s no egg in it?

Why do people never say “it’s only a game” when they’re winning?

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

Why do birds have white poop?

Can good looking Eskimo girls be called hot?

Why is an elevator still called an elevator even when its going down?

Why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn’t it be called an inlet.

If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?

If you accidentally ate your own tongue, what would it taste like?

Do sore thumbs really stick out?

Why is it when your almost dead your on deaths doorstep, but when your actually dead your not in deaths house?

Why do we scrub Down and wash Up?

What’s the opposite of opposite?

If Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, then why practice?

Why are toe nail clippers bigger than finger nail clippers when your toe nails are smaller than your finger nails?

Is the opposite of “out of whack” “in whack”

If you try to fail and succeed, what did you just do?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!

On the periodic table, why do some elements have symbols with letters that aren’t even in the word?

Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep?

Why do they call it “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” when they know the answer is going to be everyone?

Why does Bugs bunny walk around the cartoon naked, but puts a bathing suit on when he goes swimming?

If a terminator is someone who kills, shouldn’t an exterminator be the opposite?

How many people do you need to consider it a mass suicide/murder?

If a robber tried to rob a dance club and yelled, “Everybody get down”, would all the people start dancing?

Why is a woman in a suit a “business person” but a man in a dress is a “transvestite”?

Was Dawson Named After The Creek or Was The Creek Named After Dawson?

Could a tanning bed kill a vampire? If not would they get a tan?

How long is it until your relationship is considered a long-term relationship?

If you cut off a glowworm’s tail would it be delighted?

How do you know which armrest is yours in the movie theaters?

If you say something is indescribable, isn’t that describing it?

Do Dutch people always split the bill?

Why is it called butterfingers when there is no butter or fingers in it?

If you shine a light into a mirror, do you get twice as much light?

If a Truck is loaded with Helium, would it weigh less than when it was empty? Wouldn’t it get better fuel mileage?

Why is the blackboard green?

Why do they call it a black light when it’s really purple?

Why do hotdogs come in packs of 8 when hotdog rolls come in packs of 10?

How come the sun makes your skin darker but your hair lighter?

If you dig a tunnel straight through the earth, will you come out with your feet first?

Why are pennies bigger than dimes?

Did they have antiques in the olden days?

Are zebras black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?

Is a sleeping bag a nap sack?

Can blind people see their dreams?

If there’s an exception to every rule, is there an exception to that rule?

Why do you click on start to exit Microsoft Windows?

Have you ever wondered why Trix are only for kids?

Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can’t go that fast on any road?

Why do they call it “getting your dog fixed” if afterwards it doesn’t work anymore?

If Wile Coyote had enough money for all that Acme crap, why didn’t he just buy dinner?

If masochists like to torture themselves, wouldn’t they do it best by not torturing themselves? and if so, aren’t we all masochist?


If when people freak out they are said to be “having a cow”, when cows freak out are they said to be “having a person?”

Aren’t you tired of people asking you rhetorical questions and you don’t know if they are rhetorical questions or not?

Why is a person that handles your money called a BROKER?

Why do we leave expensive cars in the driveway, when we keep worthless junk in the garage?

why do they have handicap parking spaces in front of they skating rings?

What happens if someone loses a lost and found box?

Why do they call it taking a dump? Shouldn’t it be leaving a dump?

What if the hokey-pokey really is what it’s all about?

If quizzes are quizzical then what are tests?

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

Why do banks leave the door wide open but the pens chained to the counter?

What would happen if an Irresistible Force met an Immovable Object?

What’s the difference between a wise man and a wise guy?

If Americans throw rice at weddings, do the Chinese throw hamburgers?

how can you chop down a tree and then chop it up?

How can you hear yourself think?

If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

Is a man full of wonder a wonderful man?

How come thaw and unthaw mean the same thing?

If The Flintstones were B.C. and before America, why did they have Flintstones Thanksgiving and Flintstones Christmas?

If a Man is talking in the forest and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

Why is it that when a person tells you there’s over a million stars in the universe you believe them, but if someone tells you there’s wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?

if you fed a bee nothing but oranges, would it start making marmalade?

If the speed of movement is slower than the speed of light - how fast is a moving light?

why do you get on a bus and a train but get into a car?

Why is it good to be a Daddy’s girl, but bad to be a Momma’s boy?

How can something be new and improved? if it’s new, what was it improving on?

Is Disney world the only people trap operated by a mouse?

Why did they name that underwear company fruit of the loom?

Why do grocery stores buy so many checkout line registers if they only keep 3 or 4 open?

why do the ABC song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Baa Baa Black Sheep all have the same tune?

How does Santa get into a house that doesn’t have a chimney?

What would Geronimo say if he jumped out of an airplane?

I know you can be overwhelmed, and I know you can be underwhelmed, but can you just be whelmed?

If Barbie is so popular, then why do you have to buy her friends?

Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn’t usually wear any pants?

If you take an oriental person and spin him around a few times, does he become disoriented?

How come overtones and undertones are the same thing?

What would you use to dilute water?

How can military troops be deployed if they have never been ployed to begin with?

If you lived in Siberia and you wronged the Russians government, where would they send you?

Why do they call it an asteroid when its outside the hemisphere but call it a hemorrhoid when its in your ass?

If a cow laughed real hard, would milk come out her nose?

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Aren’t all generalizations false?

Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?

Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?

Can I get arrested for running into a Fire House yelling Movie! Movie!?

Can you be a closet claustrophobic?

Could someone ever get addicted to counseling? If so, how could you treat them?

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog’s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car, he sticks his head out the window!

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?

How can someone “draw a blank”?

How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

How can there be “self help GROUPS”?

How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?

How come you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?

How do you know when you’re out of invisible ink?

How does a shelf salesman keep his store from looking empty?

How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

How fast do you have to go to keep up with the sun so you’re never in darkness?

How is it possible to have a civil war?

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound and would anyone care?

If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

If a woman can be a meter maid, can a man be a meter butler?

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?

How many people thought of the Post-It note before it was invented but just didn’t have anything to jot it down on?

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t grow in it?

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

If 75% of all accidents happen within 5 miles of home, why not move 10 miles away?

If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?

If a bus station is where a bus stops, and a train station is where a train stops, why do I have a work station on my desk?

If a case of the clap spreads, is it then considered a case of the applause?

If a cat always lands on its feet, and buttered bread always lands butter side down, what would happen if you tied buttered bread on top of a cat?

If a chronic liar tells you he is a chronic liar do you believe him?

If a dog sweats through his tongue, why does he have armpits?

If you were traveling at the speed of sound and you turned on your radio would you be able to hear it?

If a mute child swears, does his mother make him wash his hands with soap?

If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?

If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?

If inert is to be stationary, what is ert?

If knees were backwards, what would chairs look like?

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?

If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress?

If quitters never win, and winners never quit, who came up with, “Quit while you’re ahead”?

If soap is used to make you clean, why does it leave a scum?

If someone has a mid-life crisis while playing hide and seek, does he automatically lose because he can’t find himself?

If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill herself, is it considered a hostage situation?

If superglue is so good, why doesn’t it stick to the side of the tube?

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why’s it still #2?

If the cops arrest a mime, do they have to tell him he has the right to remain silent?

If the folks at the psychic hotlines were really psychic, wouldn’t they call you first?

If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth?

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi?

If women ran the Pentagon, would missiles and submarines be shaped differently?

If women wear a pair of pants, a pair of glasses, and a pair of earrings, why don’t they wear a pair of bras?

If you ate pasta and anti-pasta, would you still be hungry?

If you bear a child, why do you have a cow?

If you can read the marking, isn’t that end already up?

If you can’t drink and drive, why do you need a driver’s license to buy liquor, and why do bars have parking lots?

If you dive into a pool of dry ice, can you swim without getting wet?

If you got into a taxi and he started driving backwards, would the driver end up owing you money?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If you have a friend who works for the Psychic Friends Network, should you plan a surprise birthday party for them?

If you have an open mind why don’t your brains fall out?

If you have your finger touching the rearview mirror that says – “objects in mirror are closer than they appear”, how can that be possible?

If you keep trying to prove Murphy’s Law, will something keep going wrong?

If you play a blank tape at full volume and have a mime for a neighbor, will he complain?

If you put freeze-dried coffee in the microwave, will you go back in time?

If you spend your day doing nothing, how do you know when you’re done?

If you steal a clean slate, does it go on your record?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

If you’re cross-eyed and have dyslexia can you read correctly?

If you’re traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?

Instead of talking to your plants, if you yell at them would they still grow, only to be troubled and insecure?


Is it possible to be totally partial?

Is it true that cannibals don’t eat clowns because they taste funny?

Just before someone gets nervous, do they experience cocoons in their stomach?


Shouldn’t it be some things in moderation?

Shouldn’t there be a shorter word for “monosyllabic”?

There are 24 hours in a day, and 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

What color would a smurf turn if you choked it?

What did we do before the Law of Gravity was passed?

What do sheep count when they can’t sleep?

What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

What does it mean if you break a mirror with a rabbits foot?

What hair color do they put on the driver’s license of a bald man?

What happened to the first 6 ups?

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

What happens when you call a 1-800 number collect?

What is another word for “thesaurus”?

What part of the monkey do you use a monkey wrench on?

What’s another word for synonym?

When blind people go to the bathroom, how do they know when they are done wiping their butt?

When people lose weight, where does it go?

When vultures are on their deathbed, are they ever tempted to eat themselves?

When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you’re just sitting there, staring at carpeting?

Where are Preparations A through G?

Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?

Who invented accents?

Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?

Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren’t afraid to have a Chapter 11?

Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

Why are the cabs from the Yellow Cab Company painted orange?

Why are there never any artist’s materials in a drawing room?

Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Why are they called ’stands’ when they’re made for sitting?

Why are we afraid of falling? Shouldn’t we be afraid of the sudden stop?

Why aren’t there bulletproof pants?

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Why didn’t Luke Skywalker tell Darth Vader to turn to the light side of the Force?

Why do airlines call flights nonstop? Won’t they all stop eventually?

Why do bars advertise live bands? What does a dead band sound like?

Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

If your feet smell and your nose runs, are you built upside down?

Why do people who only eat natural foods drink decaffeinated coffee?

Why do they call it disposable douche? Is there a kind of douche you keep after using?

Why do they call them “apartments” when they are all stuck together?

Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?

Why do they report power outages on TV?

Why do they sell a pound cake that only weighs 12 ounces?

Why do ‘tug’boats push their barges?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Why do we have hot water heaters?

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and garments in a suitcase?

Why do we sing ‘Take me out to the ball game’, when we are already there?

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean when we use them?

Why does “slow down” and “slow up” mean the same thing?

Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?

Why doesn’t “onomatopoeia” sound like what it is?

Why don’t you ever hear about gruntled employees?

Why don’t you ever see baby pigeons?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

Why is a women’s prison called a penal colony?

Why is it called a “building” when it is already built?

Why is it called a bust, when it stops right before the part it is named after?

Why is it called ‘after dark’, when it is really after light?

Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?

Why is it that when you’re driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

Why is it when a door is open it’s ajar, but when a jar is open it’s not adoor?

Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a “near miss”?

Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?

Why is Mickey Mouse bigger than his dog Pluto?

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

Why is the word “abbreviate” so long?

Don’t you have to get up to get to the tape?

Why is there an expiration date on SOUR cream?

Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?

Why isn’t “palindrome” spelled the same way backwards?

Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

You know how most packages say “Open here”. What is the protocol if the package says, “Open somewhere else”?

Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

After eating, do amphibians have to wait an hour before getting out of the water?

You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can’t they make the whole plane out of the same substance?

Are there seeing eye humans for blind dogs?

Have ex-bankers become disinterested?

Have ex-civil lawyers been distorted?

Have ex-locomotive engineers been derailed?

Have ex-mathematicians become dysfunctional?

Have ex-punsters been expunged?

How come toy hippos are always blue, or purple, when real hippos are brown?

Why is it that whenever you sing to the radio, your voice is higher? Even when you have a low voice?

Why is most lunchmeat bigger than the bread?

Is there a certain temperature at which it stops being qualified as cold? At what temperature does it qualify as hot?

If you were a pastor, and you were getting married, would you hire a pastor, or would you do the wedding yourself?

Why is Joey short for Joe, when Joey has more letters?

Can someone have their head in the clouds and be down-to-earth at the same time?

If a person suffered from amnesia and then was cured would they remember that they forgot?

If you died with braces on would they take them off?

Why do mattresses have designs on them when they’re always covered with sheets?

If a singer sings their own song during a karaoke party, is it considered karaoke?

If conjoined twins participate in sports, do they count as one or two players?

Why is shampoo clear but conditioner not?

Do cows have calf muscles?

How come French fries are not considered a vegetable, they are just deep fried potatoes?

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