Sunday 27 July 2008

Tell me ...


- Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person drives a race car not called a racist?
- If a turtle does not have a shell, is he homeless or naked? 
- What do you call a male ladybug?
- Why is it that what you hear is never quite as interesting was what you overhear?
- Is there another word for synonym? 
- Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavour, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons? 
- Is it not a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do ‘practice’?
- How is it possible to have a civil war? 
- Why do they not call moustaches ‘mouth brows’? 
- Is it true that cannibals do not eat clowns because they taste funny? 
- What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? 
- Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? 
- Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand? 
- Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
- When dog food is ‘new and improved tasting’, who tests it?
- Why is it that rain drops and snow falls? 
- If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? 
- Why do you not ever see the headline, ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’? 
- How come ‘abbreviated’ is such a long word?
- Why is it that no one needs a vacation quite so badly as those who just took one?
- Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
- Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections? 
- If people from Poland are called Poles, why are people from Holland not called Holes? 
- Why is it that when you are driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? 
- If the ‘blackbox’ flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why is not the whole damn airplane made out of that stuff?
- Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? 
- If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? 
- What if there were no hypothetical questions? 
- Why does the sun lighten your hair, but darken your skin? 
- Why is eleven not pronounced onety one?

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