Is It Just Me? Harry K. Jones on 26 Sep 2008 10:00 am
The Sky’s the Limit for Obvious Questions
I’m afraid I started something. By sharing these questions, 175 including today’s list, I was hoping some of our readers would start sending me some answers. Instead, I’ve been receiving additional questions from readers to add to our every-growing list. Apparently I’m not the only one that’s being driven crazy by so many questions and so few answers. Here are the latest additions. Maddening isn’t it?
- Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one?
- Crime doesn’t pay … does that mean my job is a crime?
- Do prison buses have emergency exits?
- How come you can kill a deer and put it up on your wall, but it’s illegal to keep one as a pet?
- If a bouncer gets drunk, who throws him out?
- What happens to an 18-hour bra after 18 hours?
- If an escalator breaks down, does it become stairs?
- If a guy that was about to die in the electric chair had a heart attack, should they save him?
- Why does the Easter Bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don’t lay eggs.
- Why isn’t pink called light red?
- How can something be “new” and “improved”? If it’s new, what was it improving on?
- Was the pole vault accidentally discovered by a clumsy javelin thrower?
- In some books, why do they have blank pages at the very end?
- What happened to the first 6 UPs?
- Why is an electrical outlet called an outlet when you plug things into it? Shouldn’t it be called an inlet?
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on 28 Sep 2008 at 8:02 pm 1.Jeffrey Erskine said …
Hi,
Just finished reading your obvious questions and can’t stop laughing. I agreed with most every one of them and have really never heard an answer to any of them. I do have a bit of a problem though. Our supervisor gave us an assignment to browse your Out-of-Box Thinking articles and your Generation Gems articles, pick one, and relate it to our work team. I found the Out-Of-Box article on the watermelon (great story) but I don’t know how to find the others or how to find the Generation Gems articles. I’m sure it’s simple but I’m not very technical. Suggestions? Thank you and keep the articles coming, we really enjoy them.
on 28 Sep 2008 at 9:27 pm 2.Melanie L. Drake said …
Hi Jeffrey. The categories are listed in the column to the right of any article; the categories are listed directly below the subscribe box and the links to the rest of the site. Specific categories are also listed above the title of any article.