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perlexing questions

  • If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
  • Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow? Only to be troubled and insecure?
  • Is there another word for synonym?
  • Isn't is it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
  • When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
  • When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?
  • Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?
  • Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
  • Why do they report power outages on TV?
  • What do you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?
  • Is it possible to be totally partial?
  • What's another word for thesaurus?
  • If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
  • Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
  • Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?
  • If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their headlights off?
  • If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?
  • If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
  • When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
  • If the cops arrest a mime artist, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
  • Why is the word abbreviation so long?
  • When companies ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
  • If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
  • Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
  • Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
  • Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?
  • Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
  • If you can't drink and drive, why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor, and why do bars have parking lots?
  • Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?
  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
  • 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?
  • If a cow laughed real hard, would milk come out her nose?
  • If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
  • If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
  • If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
  • You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
  • Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
  • Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
  • Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards?
  • 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?
  • 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?
  • Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
  • If you have your finger touching the rearview mirror that says -- "objects in mirror are closer than they appear", how can that be possible?
  • Why is it so hard to remember how to spell mnemonic?
  • If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?
  • Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?
  • Why does your nose run and your feet smell?
  • Why does an alarm clock "go off" when it begins ringing?
  • If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress?
  • Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together?
  • Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?
  • Why is it called a "building" when it is already built?
  • Why do they call them "apartments" when they are all stuck together?
  • Why is there an expiration date on SOUR cream?
  • Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?
  • How can someone "draw a blank"?
  • Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"?
  • Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
  • If 75% of all accidents happen within 5 miles of home, why not move 10 miles away?
  • Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is?
  • Why do 'tug' boats push their barges?
  • Why do we sing 'Take me out to the ball game', when we are 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 does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
  • Why is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a "near miss"? Shouldn't it be called a "near hit"?
  • What does Geronimo say when he jumps out of a plane?
  • Why is brassiere singular and panties plural?
  • 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's off you can't see to read.
  • If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
  • How do you know it's an endless loop?