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75 Profound but very strange questions
strangecosmos.com ^ | 9/20/2003

Posted on 09/20/2003 7:43:51 PM PDT by sinkspur

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

If a candle factory burns down, does everyone just stand around and sing "Happy Birthday?"

If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?

If a food processor slices and dices food, what does a word processor do?

If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle? --Tom Robbins

If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his Walkman?

If a mime commits suicide, does he use a silencer? --Steven Wright

If a mirror reverses right and left, why doesn't it reverse up and down? (Thanks, Robert A. Hinds)

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a picture of a thousand words worth?

If a pig is sold to the pawn shop, is it a ham-hock?

If a pizza place sells pizza by the slice, is there a guy in the back tossing a triangle in the air? --Steven Wright

If a pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, is a proverb a word used in place of a verb?

If a tree falls in the forest, does the earth scream out in pain?

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? --Harry Shearer

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

If all the world is a stage, where are the audience sitting?

If an orange is orange, why isn't a lime called a green, and a lemon called a yellow?

If athletes get athlete’s foot, do astronauts get mistletoe?

If Barbie's so popular, why do you have to buy all her friends? (Thanks, Bob Hornal)

If bees live in an apiary, do apes live in a beeiary?

If blind people wear dark glasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? --Steven Wright

If cats and dog didn't have fur would we still pet them?

If corn can't hear, why does it have an ear?

If corn oil is made from corn, what is baby oil made from?

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

If everything is part of a whole, what is the whole part of? --Ashleigh Brilliant

If flowers don’t talk back to you, are they mums?

If Fred Flintstone knew that the large order of ribs would tip his car over, why did he order them at the end of every show? --Steven Wright

If God can do anything, can he make a rock so big he can't lift it? --George Carlin

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

If humans get a charley horse, what do horses get?

If humans have nightmares, what do horses have?

If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet? --Steven Wright

If I save time, when do I get it back?

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

If man evolved from apes why do we still have apes? --Dennis Miller

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

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?

If our knees were on the backs of our legs, what would chairs look like?

If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of?

If rabbits' feet are so lucky, then what happened to the rabbit?

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags?

If Superman is so smart why does he wear his underpants over his trousers?

If swimming is good for your shape, then why do the whales look like the way they do?

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off?

If the product says "Do not use if seal is broken", how are you supposed to open it and use it?

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? --Art Hoppe

If time heals all wounds, how come bellybuttons don't fill in?

If tin whistles are made out of tin, what do they make fog horns out of? (Thanks, Chris Cole)

If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi?

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?

If you can wave a fan, and you can wave a club, can you wave a fan club?

If you can't drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?

If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?

If you get into a taxi cab, and ask the driver to drive backwards to your destination, will the cab driver owe you money?

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

If you jog backwards, will you gain weight?

If you mixed milk of magnesia with orange juice and vodka, would you get a Philips' screwdriver? (Thanks, Hannah Fried)

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?


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1 posted on 09/20/2003 7:43:52 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

To secure the building for the armed robbery investigation?

2 posted on 09/20/2003 7:45:32 PM PDT by RichInOC (Two-block the Jolly Roger. Set Condition 1SQ. Commence unrestricted warfare. Arrrrrgggh....)
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To: sinkspur
Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
3 posted on 09/20/2003 7:50:14 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry ("Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book.")
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To: sinkspur
You should credit Steven Wright for most of these.
4 posted on 09/20/2003 7:52:23 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (The more I learn the less I know.)
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To: sinkspur
If foots are feet, shouldn't boots be beet?
5 posted on 09/20/2003 7:52:36 PM PDT by RJL
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To: sinkspur
If a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle? --Tom Robbins
These would of made great lyrics to a "Presidents of The United States" song.
6 posted on 09/20/2003 8:00:26 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: sinkspur
Is an octopus alarms?
Is "crick" the sound that a Japanese camera makes?
Is incongruous where bills are passed?
Is an oboe an English tramp?
Is pasteurize too far to see?
Is propaganda a gentlemanly goose?
Is tobaggan why we go to an auction?
Is an archeologist a person whose career lies in ruins?
Is an atheist a person with no invisible means of support?
7 posted on 09/20/2003 8:02:30 PM PDT by xJones
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To: NewRomeTacitus
Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?
8 posted on 09/20/2003 8:08:10 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Veni Vidi Velcro)
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To: sinkspur
"If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his Walkman?"

Yes, for the same reason fighter pilots can talk to each other.
9 posted on 09/20/2003 8:12:22 PM PDT by Bogey78O (The Clinton's have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured/killed -Peach)
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To: Ready4Freddy
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
10 posted on 09/20/2003 8:13:11 PM PDT by LivingNet
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To: NewRomeTacitus
You should credit Steven Wright for most of these.

Well, that would be strangecosmos job, but, yes, he's the godfather of bizarre questions.

You can get on strangecosmos.com e-mail list; they've got new stuff every three or four days, and most of it's pretty good.

Like this link: Hillary blames Dubya for Hurricane Isabel.

11 posted on 09/20/2003 8:15:15 PM PDT by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from a shelter! You'll save at least one life, maybe two!)
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To: sinkspur
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12 posted on 09/20/2003 8:16:17 PM PDT by UB355
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To: sinkspur
If a man with no arms has a gun, is he considered "armed"?

What did they do before the invention of disposable douche...keep it?

13 posted on 09/20/2003 8:39:42 PM PDT by South40
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To: sinkspur
If a man with no arms has a gun, is he considered "armed"?

What did they do before the invention of disposable douche...keep it?

14 posted on 09/20/2003 8:40:27 PM PDT by South40
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To: sinkspur
If a man speaks, and there's no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

15 posted on 09/20/2003 8:57:54 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (Keep forgetting to update this thing from thread-specific taglines. Am I the only one?)
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To: sinkspur
If cats and dog didn't have fur would we still pet them?

Ask these guys!

MEXICAN HAIRLESS DOG (XOLOITZQUINTLE)

16 posted on 09/20/2003 9:42:54 PM PDT by TotusTuus
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To: sinkspur
Think about all the accidents you never hear about because they don't happen.
17 posted on 09/20/2003 9:45:36 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: Dave in Eugene of all places
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18 posted on 09/20/2003 9:52:22 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Yes. ;-)
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To: sinkspur
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people around?
19 posted on 09/20/2003 10:32:05 PM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (Give a man a little luck and anything'll do for brains.)
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