Sunday, October 01, 2006

Questioning Questions!

  • 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*?
  • Can you get cornered in a round room?
  • How fast do you have to go to keep up with the sun so you're never in darkness?
  • If you went back in time and killed your mother would you disappear the moment you killed her?
  • How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
  • Is it possible to be totally partial?
  • How come you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?
  • If our body temperature is 36.5 degrees, how come when its 36 degrees outside it's too hot?
  • 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?
  • Why is it called a soap opera when nobody sings?
  • Can a unborn baby fart or burp?
  • 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?
  • Why do they call the small chocolate bars the "fun sizes"? Wouldn't be more fun to eat a big one?
  • Just what was the "Baby On Board" sign for? Did it help us decide which car not to hit in case of an accident?
  • Doesn't a lightning rod on top of church show a lack of faith?
  • What sound does a bunny make?
  • Do you wake up or open your eyes first?
  • When a store has double doors why do they only let you use one of them?
  • What was Captain Hook's name before he had a hook for a hand?
  • Why do bullies always ask "what's your problem" when they're obviously not going to solve it?   
  • Why is the name of the phobia for the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliohobia?
  • 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?
  • 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 going to eat the first thing that comes out if its butt"?
  • If you decide that you're indecisive, which one are you?
  • Why is it when we laugh in school the teachers say do you find something funny? When obviously we do?
  • Why isn't chocolate considered a vegetable, if chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and all beans are a vegetable?
  • Which way does a compass point in space?
  • If mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?
  • Why do you always blush when someone tells you that so and so loves you, even when you know its not true?
  • Why is it that if something says, "do not eat" on the packaging it becomes extra tempting to eat?
  • How do countries make up their own language when they cant even communicate with each other until they have made that language up already?
  • Why does everything that tastes good seem to be bad for your health?
  • Why is Charlie short for Charles if they are both the same number of letters but Charlie has more syllables?
  • How come you pay extra money to get something put on your hamburger but they don't take off the price if you get something taken off?
  • Why is it the TWELVE days of Christmas when there is only one day of Christmas?
  • Why do people say PIN number when that really means Personal Identification Number Number?
  • Can you breathe out of your nose and mouth at the same time?
  • Can someone give up lent for lent?
  • If CD*s were spun in the opposite direction, would it say everything backwards?
  • Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
  • 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?
  • Can crop circles be square?
  • 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?
  • When a car is for sale and it has a balloon on it, does the balloon come with it?
  • 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 is it illegal to put money in other people's parking meters?
  • If we had a president that was a woman, would her husband be the first man?   
  • If a criminal turns himself in shouldn't he get the reward money?
  • Why is it that however early you are, someone else is always in front of you in a queue?
  • 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?
  • If the weather man says "it's a 50% chance of rain" does that mean he has no idea if it’s going to rain or not?
  • 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?
  • 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 is an alarm clock going "off" when it actually turns on?
  • Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
  • Isn't it scary that the word "therapist" is the same as the words "the" and "rapist" put together?
  • What do you say when someone says you're in denial, but you're not?
  • If a water spins clockwise when it drains in the northern hemisphere, and water spins counter clockwise when it drains in the southern hemisphere...which way does it spin at the equator?
  • What does the K in K-mart actually stand for?
  • Why do donuts have holes?
  • Why is it you can walk down a road, even if it goes uphill?
  • Why do we say "bye bye" but not "hi hi"?
  • How do you handcuff a one-armed man?
  • On a telephone, why does ABC start on the number 2 and not 1?
  • Why did Superman wear his underwear on the outside of his tights?    .... it had to be asked!
  • If you are born on February 29 of a leap year, when is your birthday?
  • Do birds pee?
  • Why do they call it your "bottom", when it's really in the middle of your body?
  • Aren't the 'good things that come to those who wait' just the leftovers from the people that got there first?
  • "Cute as a button" Is that supposed to be a compliment? Since when are buttons cute?
  • Why do the numbers on phones go down while the numbers on calculators go up?
  • 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?
  • If Dracula has no reflection, how comes he always had such a straight parting in his hair?
  • If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?
  • Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
  • Do you find it worrying that doctors call treating you their "practice”?
  • Why are SOFT balls hard?
  • Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp which no decent human being would eat?
  • If you stole a pen from a bank then would it still be considered a bank robbery?
  • Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
  • Does a postman deliver his own mail?
  • Why are boxing rings square?
  • What was the best thing before sliced bread?
  • What's the opposite of opposite?
  • 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!       
  • If Pringles are "so good that once you pop, you can't stop" why do they come with a resealable lid?
  • 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?
  • Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
  • Why do we leave expensive cars in the driveway, when we keep worthless junk in the garage?
  • Where in the nursery rhyme does it say humpty dumpty is an egg?   
  • Why do banks leave the door wide open but the pens chained to the counter?
  • How can something be new and improved? if it's new, what was it improving on?
  • Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually wear any pants anyway?
  • What would you use to dilute water?
  • How can someone "draw a blank"?
  • Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after light?
  • Why is Mickey Mouse bigger than his dog Pluto?
  • Why is the word "abbreviate" so long?
  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
  • Is there a certain temperature at which it stops being qualified as cold?

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