questions of life
[collected from random places over time]
+. If I think, and therefore I am, am I just a thought?
+. What does OK actually mean?
+. Why do we say "bye bye" but not "hi hi"?
+. Why is the abbreviation for pound lb. when l or b isn't in the word pound?
+. Why is the name of the phobia for the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
+. If someone can't see, they're blind; if someone can't hear, they're deaf...so what do you call people who can't smell?
+. Why is it called a TV set when there's only one?
+. What is a male ladybug called?
+. Why are semi-trucks bigger than regular trucks?
+. 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?
+. Don't you find it worrying that doctors call treating you their "practice"?
+. If croutons are stale bread, why do they come in airtight packages?
+. Why does mineral water that has "trickled through mountains for centuries" go out of date next year?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 artificiallly flavored?
+. What do people in China call their good plates?
+. If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat? Or better yet, just make a new one?
+. Why is it that cargo is transported by ship while a shipment is transported by car?
+. Why are boxing rings square?
+. If you try to fail and succeed, what did you just do?
+. If Pringles are so good that "once you pop, you just can't stop" why do they come with a resealable lid?
+. Why do most cars have speedometers that go up to at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?
+. If Wile E. Coyote had enough money for all that Acme stuff, why didn't he just buy dinner?
+. Why do we leave expensive cars in the drivway, but we keep worthless junk in the garage?
+. Why do they have handicap parking spaces in front of skating rinks?
+. Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
+. Why don't we ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
+. Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?
+. Why is the person who invests your money called a broker?
+. Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
+. When dog food has "new and improved taste," who tests it?
+. Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
+. You know that indestructible black box that's used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
+. If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
+. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
+. Why do old men have all this hair in their ears and noses, but none on their heads?
+. How come dogs get mad when you blow in their faces, but when you stick them in a car and drive around they stick their head out the window?
+. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
+. Why is the rum gone?
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