Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Things that make you go Hmmm

More from my extensive files of my past.
  • Why do you need a driver’s license to buy liquor when you cannot drink and drive?

  • Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

  • Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

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

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

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

  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

  • How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work?

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

  • If a cow laughs, does milk come out its nose?

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

  • If buttered toast always lands butter side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat, and dropped it? A Definite Science Project There.

  • If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on your headlights, what happens?

  • You know how most packages say "open here?" What is the protocol, if the package says, "open somewhere else?"

  • Why do they put braille dots on the keypad of the drive up ATM?

  • Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

  • Why is brassiere singular and panties plural?

  • Why is it when you transport something by car it’s called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it’s called cargo?

  • 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?

  • Why is it that when you are driving and looking for an address, you turn the radio down?
  • Why don’t sheep shrink when it rains?

  • Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

  • What would Geronimo say when he jumps out of a plane?

  • If fire fighters fight fire, and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

2 comments:

Mary Witzl said...

Having read this, I would put money on your being a fellow insomniac. I lie awake and wonder about stuff like this all the time.

The cat and buttered toast thing is worth giving a go. I'll be trying that one the minute my cat finishes eating her latest catch. I think it's a shrew.

Anonymous said...

Re: the second item on your list - how do you pronounce pamphlet?

Ask SB, she can tell you.

dd