Is It Just Me? Harry K. Jones on 30 Jun 2008 10:00 am
Never a Shortage of Obvious Questions
I’ve got a strange feeling this is going to be an unending list. I keep thinking we’ve covered them all and then BOOM—another week, more questions.
Again these aren’t world-changing questions which must be answered. It just might give us a little more peace of mind if they were answered. I’m not talking about questions that will end wars, abolish poverty, cure all diseases, or eliminate the world’s problems. I’m talking about the questions that drive us crazy due to their simplicity and the questions that absolutely no one seems to be able to answer. Here are a few more.
- Why is it as soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it?
- What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
- Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
- Why is the word dictionary in the dictionary?
- Why do they wait until a pig is dead to “cure” it?
- What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?
- Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
- Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery?”
- Why is it that rain drops but snow falls?
- When fish jump in the air, do they take a deep breath and close their eyes?
- When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?
- Why do they put all of those unattached, annoying little subscription cards in a magazine when they know that they will fall all over the floor when you start reading?
- Why is it a station comes in brilliantly when I’m standing near the radio but buzzes, drifts and spits every time I move away.
- Why does your tire gauge let half the air out of your tire when all you want is a pressure reading.
- Why is it that when you buy an answering machine to avoid missing any calls, everyone hangs up when they hear the machine answer?
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