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Wandering Ughdenn's "things of Wonder"

**Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?

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

**Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?

**What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

**Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

**Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

**When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you're sitting there, staring at carpeting?

**If someone has a mid-life crises while playing hide and seek, does he automatically lose because he can't find himself?

**Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them, would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?

**Can you be a closet claustrophobic?

**Is it possible to be totally partial?

**If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

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

**When companies ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in?

**If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?

**Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?

**What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

**Why is bra singular and panties plural?

**Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow only to be troubled and insecure?

**When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?

**Why do they report power outages on TV?

**If a man overdoses on Viagra, how do they get the casket lid shut?

**If the insurance companies are going to set guidelines before approving Viagra coverage, what are they going to use? A growth chart?

**If a light-sleeper sleeps with a light on, what does a hard-sleeper sleep with?

**Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "asteroids"?

**If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

**Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?

**You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance?

**If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

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

**Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

**Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

**Why do you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?

**Since light travels faster than sound, is that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

**If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

**Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

**Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

**Why is the alphabet in that order?

**If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

**If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver end up owing you money?

**Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

**Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?

**Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

**If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

**When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

**Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door?

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

**Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?

**Why does sour cream have an expiration date?

**Who is General failure and why is he reading my disk?

**The light went out, but where to?

**Why is it you have a "pair" of pants and only one shirt?

**Does the reverse side also have a reverse side?

**What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

**When two airplanes almost collide why do they call it a near miss?? It sounds like a near hit to me!!

**Do fish get cramps after eating?

**How come abbreviated is such a long word?

**Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

**How come when you tell a man that there are over 400 billion stars in the sky, he believes you, but when you tell him a bench has wet paint on it, he has to touch it?

**How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?

**Do infants have as much fun in their infancy as adults do in adultery?

**If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of progress?

**Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?

**How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't grow in it?

**Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?

**Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?

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

**Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

**Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

**What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?

**Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

**If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

**Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?

**Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?

**Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?

**If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?

**Sooner or later, doesn't EVERYONE stop smoking?

**Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?

**War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.

**If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

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

**Is there another word for synonym?

**Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

**When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?

**Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"

**Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

**If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

**Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

**Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

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

**Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

**Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

**If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

**Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

**How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

**Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

**Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

**Why do they call it a TV set when you only get one?

**If a cow laughs, does milk come out of its nose?

**Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

**How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

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

**Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

**Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

**How is it possible to have a civil war?

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

**If God dropped acid, would he see people?

**If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

**If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2 and not #1?

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

**If you're born again, do you have two belly-buttons?

**If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

**Why does the word "sanction" mean both to permit and to prohibit?

**Why does the word cataract mean both a waterfall and an eye defect?

**What's annother word for Thesaurus?

Why is the word "abbreviation" so long?

**If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from?

**How do a fool and his money get together?

**How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

**Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

**What do they use to ship styrofoam?

**How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes?

**Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

**When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?

**Does fuzzy logic tickle?

**Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?

**Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?

**Why is it called a TV "set" if there's only one?

**Why does your nose run and your feet smell?

**Why does an alarm clock "go off" when it begins ringing?

**If the opposite of pro is con, is the opposite of progress congress?

**Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together?

**Why is it, whether you sit down or sit up, the results are the same?

**Why is it called a "building" when it's already built?

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

**Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?

**If you keep trying to prove Murphy's Law, will something keep going wrong?

**How can you "draw a blank"?

**Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllable"?

**Why did the kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

**Why do 'tug' boats push their barges?

**Why do we sing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" when we're already there?

**Why are they called 'stands' when they're made for sitting?

**Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?

**Does a fish get cramps after eating?

**Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing?

**Why is it when two planes almost collide it's called a 'near miss'. Shouldn't it be called a 'near hit'?

**Why are there Interstate Highways in Hawaii?

**Why do light switches say on/off? When it's on you can see it's on, when it off you can't see to read.

**How do you know when it's an ENDLESS LOOP?

**Why is FOOTball played by hand?

**Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?

**Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations where smoking is not permitted?

**Why do 'fat chance' and 'slim chance' mean the same thing?

**Have you ever imagined a world without hypothetical situations?

**How does the guy who drives the snow plow get to work on snowy mornings?

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

**If a cow laughs real hard would milk come out of its nose?

**If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make it stick to pans?

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

**Why is it when you transport something by car it's called a shipment, and when you transport something by ship it's called cargo?

**Why is it they can't make an airplane out of the same material as that little black box data recorder?

**Why do we drive on a parkway and park in the driveway?

***Why does AT&T advertise "Reach Out and Touch Someone" when that's the one thing you can't do with a phone?

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