WHY???? (Long Post)

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Some questions to ponder on your next sleepless night!;)



Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards?

Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?

Why is there an expiration date on SOUR cream?

Why is the word "abbreviate" so long?

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

Why is Mickey Mouse bigger than his dog Pluto?

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

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 so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?

Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after light?

Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?

Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?

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

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

Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is?

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

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

Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?

Why do we have hot water heaters?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Why do 'tug'boats push their barges?

Why do they report power outages on TV?

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

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

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

How can someone "draw a blank"?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as 4's?

Do one legged ducks swim in circles?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Do fish get cramps after eating?

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!

Did Adam and Eve have navels?

Can you be a closet claustrophobic?

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

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

Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?

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

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

What should one call a male ladybird?

What would you use to dilute water?

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

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

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

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

What would Cheeses say if they got their picture taken?

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

If you're in hell, and are mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?

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

Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

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

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

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

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

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

Why is it you get a penny for your thoughts, but have to put in your two cents worth?

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

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

Is a man full of wonder a wonderful man?

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

How can you hear yourself think?

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

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

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

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

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

If quizzes are quizzical then what are tests?

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

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

What happens if someone loses a lost and found box?

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

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

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?"

Why is it called lipstick when it always comes off?

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

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 doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

Why do you click on start to exit Microsoft Windows?

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

Can blind people see their dreams?

Where does the white go when the snow melts?

What came first, the fruit or the color orange?

Is a sleeping bag a nap sack?

If Pringles are "so good that once you pop, you can't stop" why do they come with a resealable lid?

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

Did they have antiques in the olden days?

Why are pennies bigger than dimes?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is the opposite of "out of whack" "in whack"

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

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

What's the opposite of opposite?

Why do we scrub Down and wash Up?

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

Do sore thumbs really stick out?

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

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

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

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

Why do birds have white poop?

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

Why do people never say "it's only a game" when they're winning?

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

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

Why are boxing rings square?

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

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

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 do people say "You scared the living daylights out of me" when daylight is not living?

Is the fear of flying groundless?

Do mimes watch silent movies?

Does peanut butter really have butter in it?

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

Why doesn't a chicken egg taste like chicken?

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

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

Does a postman deliver his own mail?

If feathers tickle people, do they tickle birds?

Can you sentence a homeless man to house arrest?

What do people in China call their good plates?

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

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

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

Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?

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

Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

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

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

Why are they called goose bumps? Do geese get people bumps?

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

Why are SOFTballs hard?

If Milli Vanilli fell in the woods, would someone else make a sound ?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

What do you call a female daddy long legs?

Do they have the word "dictionary" in the dictionary?

Don't you find it worrying that doctors call treating you their "practice" ?

Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

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?

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

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

If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?

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

Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?

If you mated a bull dog and a ****su, would it be called a bull****?

How fast do hotcakes sell?

If you wore a teflon suit, could you ever end up in a sticky situation?

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

Why are semi-trucks bigger than regular trucks?

What is a male ladybug called?

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

Can a guy named Nick have a 'nick'name?

How did the headless horseman know where he was going?

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

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

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?

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

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

Why do British people never sound British when they sing?

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

Why do they call it your "bottom", when it's really in the middle of your body?

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

Why do they call it a RUNNING BACK when he is running forward?

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

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

If an anarchist group attained political power, would they by principle have to dissolve their own government?

If Luke took a bath, would the water be lukewarm?

How do you handcuff a one-armed man?

Can blind people be dyslexic when they read Braille?

Why do we say "bye bye" but not "hi hi"?

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

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

If you're caught "between a rock and a hard place", is the rock not hard?

If your born at exactly midnight is your birthday on both those days?

Why do donuts have holes?

Why do we feel blue? and what color does a smurf feel when they are down?

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?

Why are things typed up but written down?

Why do old men have hair in their ears?

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

How do you throw away a garbage can?

Why do they call them "Animal Crackers" when there not even crackers...they're cookies?

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?

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

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

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

Do siamese twins pay for one ticket or two tickets when they go to movies and concerts?

Do birds pee?

When a male is elected president and his wife is called the First Lady. What would a lady's husband be called if she were elected president?

Can dogs have dog days?

Why do they call the clock where you punch your time card called a "time" clock? Aren't all clocks "time" clocks?

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

Why do people say heads up when you should duck?

Why do radio operators say "niner" instead of just "nine"?

Do pigs pull ham strings?

Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?

Isn't it scary that the word "therapist" is the same as the words "the" and "rapist" put together?

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?

Why do they put Canadian bacon on Hawaiian Pizza?

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

Seeing as cupid is so good at matchmaking, does he have a girlfriend?

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?

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

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 are you IN a movie, but your ON TV?

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

If people with one arm go to get their nails done, do they pay half price?

If someone crashes his or her car on purpose, why is it still a car accident?

If you died on the International Dateline, and half of you were on 1 side and the other half on the other side, what day would you die?

Do glow-in-the-dark objects stop glowing when somebody turns the lights on?

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

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

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

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?

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

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

Why do birds bob their heads when they walk?

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

Why are blue Christmas lights so popular? Aren't red and green the traditional colors?

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

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

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?

What happens when you say “hi to your friend on an airplane who's name is Jack?

Why are women and men's shoe sizes different?

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

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

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

Why are there black lines on a basketball?

How do they get the air inside the bubble wrap?

Can crop circles be square?

Can you blow a balloon up under water?

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 write in pencil on an eraser?

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

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

Can a blind man see his future?

If a man has no fingers, can he press charges?

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

What did cured ham actually have?

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

Why is it when we duck they call us chicken?

If the day before a holiday is called Christmas Eve, is the day after Christmas Adam?

Do stuttering people stutter when they're thinking to themselves?

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

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

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

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

Can you cry under water?

Just what was the "Baby On Board" sign for? Did it help us decide which car not to hit in case of an accident?

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?

Why is Donkey Kong called "DONKEY" Kong if he's a monkey?

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

If you went back in time and killed your mother would you disappear the moment you killed her?

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

Why is "number" abbreviated as "no"? When there is no "o" in number?

Is sign language the same in languages other than English?

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

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

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

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

If I had my legs amputated, would I have to change my height and weight on my driver's license?

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

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

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

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?

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

Can you get cornered in a round room?

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"?

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

When French people swear do they say pardon my English?

"What was Captian Hook's name before he had a hook for a hand?"

If your eyes are crossed, do your tears fall straight?:-2

[CARLA]

:wah: I will be back tonight when I can't sleep to finish reading it..