WHY are buildings called buildings if their already built???????????

Question

ha ha true huh???

Answer 1

Why do people pay doctors just for practicing?

Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

They call the boxing championship the "undisputed championship of the world." If it's undisputed, why all the darn fighting?

You've heard the phrase "takes the cake." My question is - where? Why not take the pie? It's easier to carry a pie.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong?

Is there another word for synonym?

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

What do you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?

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

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

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

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

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

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

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have a "S" in it?

If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole darn airplane made out of that stuff?

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

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

Answer 2

The same reason paintings are called paintings when they are already painted. I hope that this is a gag question, because anyone older than 13 should know the difference between nouns and verbs.

Answer 3

I like that!
Why do we drive on parkways; pay on freeways; park in driveways; drive under overpasses on the highway; why are things that catch on fire called inflammables and packages sent on land are said 2 b shipped; draw curtains; baby-sit (As I kid, I had 2 babysit my sister. We both hated it bc she was the baby & we sat...the entire time.) Things that make u go, "Hmmmmmmmmmmm!"--Arsenio Hall

If u have kids (or even if u don't, but...), read "Pippi Longstocking" for more cute oddities.
Happy Sabbath!

Answer 4

What are you doing when you "dust" the furniture?

Are you applying dust to the surface?

Why don't we call it "undusting"?

HA!

I answered your question with a better question. Actually, my 8 year old daughter has been asking me that, so I figured I would pass it on to you since you apparently have mastered the English language.

Answer 5

They are called buildings because people are still remodeling, changing carpet, painting or doing improvements or tearing them down.
Work is never really finished.

Answer 6

Because the name denotes how they were created by building them up from where no struct prior to their construction had existed.

Answer 7

hahaha for the first time i read a Q that made me hahahahaha
laugh
I'd never thought about it good Q
hahahahahahaha mapy they are waiting for u to build it

Answer 8

Yep... like why do they have the credit card keys in braille at a drive-in bank window.

Answer 9

hehe yea very true..
but building is a noun as well as a verb thats why..

Answer 10

Hmmm...while they are being built they are CONSTRUCTION. After the are built they are technically structures