Different ways of thinking about things....Why is it that you drive on a parkway but park on a driveway? Anyone have any other things they can think of that are similar to this statement?
2007-01-23 03:39:28 · 16 answers · asked by shorty 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
If time heals all wounds, how come bellybuttons don't fill in?
If tin whistles are made out of tin, what do they make fog horns out of?
If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi?
If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?
If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
If you can wave a fan, and you can wave a club, can you wave a fan club?
If you can't drink and drive, why do bars have parking lots?
If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
If you get into a taxi cab, and ask the driver to drive backwards to your destination, will the cab driver owe you money?
If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
If you jog backwards, will you gain weight?
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
If you throw a cat out a car window, does it become kitty litter?
If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
If you're born again, do you have two bellybuttons?
If your car says Dodge on the front of it, do you really need a horn?
If you're a kleptomaniac, is there something you can take for it?
If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
In court, why do they ask if you swear to tell the truth? If you're planning on lying, do they really think you'll tell them so?
Instead of wasting time hunting and cooking, why don't hunters just use flame-throwers?
Is "tired old cliché" one?
Is a castrated pig disgruntled?
Is a halfback more valuable than a quarterback?
Is a sleeping bull a bull-dozer?
Is a small pig called a hamlet?
Is an oxymoron a really dumb bovine?
Is drilling for oil boring?
Is duck tape made out of ducks?
Is it OK to use the AM radio after noon?
Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
Is that a flying saucer or a pie in the sky?
Is the nose the scenter of the face?
Is this bullshit or fertilizer?
Now that Microsoft is so big, should it be called Macrosoft?
Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?
Since there is a speed of light and a speed of sound, is there a speed of smell?
The Scarecrow got a brain, Tin Man got a heart, Lion got courage, Dorothy got home, what did Toto get?
Was the pole vault accidentally discovered by a clumsy javelin thrower?
What are imitation rhinestones?
What do batteries run on?
What do chickens think we taste like?
What do penguins wear for play clothes?
What do people in China call their good plates?
What do sheep count when they can't get to sleep?
What do they call a French kiss in France?
What do they call coffee breaks at the Lipton Tea Company?
What do you call a bedroom with no bed in it?
What do you call a male ladybug?
What do you call male ballerinas?
What do you say if you're talking to God, and he sneezes?
What does Geronimo say when he jumps out of a plane?
What hair color do they put on the driver's license of a bald man?
What happened to the first 6 UP's?
What happens if you go on a survival course - and you don't pass?
What happens if you take No-Doze and wash it down with Nyquil?
What happens to an 18 hour bra after 18 hours?
What happens when none of your bees wax?
What happens when you swallow your pride?
What if hell really did freeze over? What would we be using instead?
What if someone died in the living room?
What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?
What if you're in hell, and you're mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?
What is "Soft Liquor"?
What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free?
What is a refried bean? Why
2007-01-23 03:50:11 · answer #1 · answered by Jay M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is a building called a building, and not a built, they are done being built, right. Why is up up, and why is down down. Will we ever know?
On a more serious note : The words 'drive' and 'park' existed long before automobiles were ever invented. These are not words created to describe the actions of your car, but rather words which already had meanings and were adapted to describe a new innovation. Since people don't park on parkways, isn't it likely that some other meaning of the word park (i.e. place of recreation) is the root of the word?
2007-01-23 03:43:14 · answer #2 · answered by Fiona M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here are some that I can think about it!!!
Why do they leave the bank doors open, but put a chain on the pens?
You know the material that they make the black-box on the air plane, they are indestructible!!!!Why they don't make the air plane in that material??
Why does the person who invest your money called broker?
Why do the doctor call what they do "practise?"
Why is the slowest time of the day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why do they make hot dog packs with 12 hot dogs in it, but the bread for it only come with 8 in the pack?
Why do the have drive-up ATM machines with braille lettering on it?
It could only make us wonder, dosen,t it???
2007-01-23 03:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
2007-01-23 03:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by tmlamora1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure...just do a Google search on "Steven Wright" and you'll come up with hundreds of those things:
Why do they call them "apartments" when they're all built together?
Why do you call something a "shipment" when you send it by car...but when you send it on a ship, you call it "cargo"?
Etc...
I swear...if it weren't for stand up comedians, half the people in here wouldn't have a thing to say.
2007-01-23 03:44:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I always think before asking a question.
2016-05-24 00:56:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do we call them cookies; not "bakies"? We bake them, after all.
When we read the time on a wristwatch, why do we say (number) o'clock and not (number) "o'watch"?
If we stay at a Bed and Breakfast, and we did not have the breakfast, is it simply called "Bed"?
Are sandals used to walk on sand, and slippers for slipping?
2007-01-23 03:48:09 · answer #7 · answered by tranquil 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, very common ones are; while teachers teach and preachers preach, why doesnt a butcher butch? Or why doesnt a postman post?
English is a very cool language
2007-01-23 03:44:49 · answer #8 · answered by sugarscamp 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Steven Wright has a bunch of those....
... he bought some used paint... it was in the shape of a house.
... he bought some batteries... but they weren't included so he had to buy them again...
I love that guy!
2007-01-23 03:43:10 · answer #9 · answered by tapping toes 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why is it a Snowplow instead of a Snouplow or a snowplo...
2007-01-23 03:43:33 · answer #10 · answered by Shadow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋