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- 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?
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- Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
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- Why does your nose run and your feet smell?
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- Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?
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- Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together?
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- If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress?
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- Why does an alarm clock "go off" when it begins ringing?
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- Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?
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- If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?
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- Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards?
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- Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
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- Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
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- Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
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- Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
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- Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?
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- Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
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- Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
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- How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
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- If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
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- If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
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- If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?
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- If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
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- If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
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- You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
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- Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
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- Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
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- Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
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- 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?
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- Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
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- Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
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- Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
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- Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
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- Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"?
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- What is another word for "thesaurus"?
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- If 75% of all accidents happen within 5 miles of home, why not move 10 miles away?
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- When they ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
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- Why do we sing 'Take me out to the ball game', when we are already there?
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- Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a "near miss"? Shouldn't it be called a "near hit"?
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- Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
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- Does a fish get cramps after eating?
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- Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?
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- Why are they called 'stands' when they're made for sitting?
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- Why do 'tug'boats push their barges?
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- Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is?
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- Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
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- Why is the word "abbreviate" so long?
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- How can someone "draw a blank"?
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- If you keep trying to prove Murphy's Law, will something keep going wrong?
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- Why is there an expiration date on SOUR cream?
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- What does Geronimo say when he jumps out of a plane?
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- If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
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- If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?
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- Why is brassiere singular and panties plural?