TO ADD TO YOUR LIST.

Submitted by Mark Rudolph - Copyright 1994 - 1998.


Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

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?

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?

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

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 is the word "abbreviate" so long?

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

What is another word for "thesaurus"?

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

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?

How can there be "self help GROUPS"?

Why are we afraid of falling? Shouldn't we be afraid
of the sudden stop?

Why is it called a bust, when it stops right before
the part it is named after?

Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after
light?


--- saul khan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Why? - An original.
>
> Have you ever asked yourself:
>
> Why do dictators delude themselves that they can
> stop time?
> Why don't dictators learn anything from history?
> Why are journalists deemed as unpatriotic when they
> write stories that
> anyone with sense can tell are true?
> Why don't Gambians protest injustice unless it's
> their blood relatives who
> are victimized?
> Why would a mother trivialize another woman's quest
> for justice in her
> child's murder?
> Why do some people always manage to get close to
> power -no matter who wields
> it, in "doing their duty" or "serving the nation?"
> Why do we Africans think god owes us something?
> Why is hedonism the largest "religion" in Africa?
> Why would anyone sleep with his mother's age-mate
> for money?
> Why do we expect others to do for us what we ought
> to be doing for
> ourselves?
> Why do some people jump up and speak for everyone
> else without asking?
> Why do so many people have a heart attack anytime
> someone else speaks
> unadulterated truth?
> Why do some people have a "need to suffer?"
> Why do Africans value outsiders' opinions more than
> those of their kin?
> Why is it that virtually everything that is popular
> in Africa is an import?
> Why do women ask you to tell them the "truth" about
> their dress when what
> they really mean is "tell me that I'm the finest
> thing gracing the earth at
> the moment?
> Why don't cloth designers just hang their clothes on
> wooden hangers instead
> of paying fortunes to have human skeletons a.k.a.
> super models wear them?
> Why do many powerful men risk it all for a quick
> thrill with some lowly
> woman?
> Why are Africans so corrupt vis-a-vis public
> property when we are the most
> community-oriented people in the world?
> Why are corrupt public servants more popular than
> whistle-blower public
> servants?
> Why does virtue exit through the back door anytime
> (a crook with) money
> knocks on the front door?
> Why do we enjoy hearing dirty stuff about our
> "friends" and neighbors?
> Why are we more titillated by the silhouette of a
> naked woman than when we
> see the real thing?
> Why do guys who always ignore you smile at you when
> you're with a pretty
> woman?
> Why do some white guys frown at you when a white
> woman starts talking to you
> at the gym?
> Why do ugly white women who are shy around white
> guys jump at you -as if you
> won't notice or somethin'?
> Why do magazines and newspapers always tell us
> "secrets" if the news is so
> secret?
> Why is the neighborhood gossip the most loved and
> hated character you can
> find?
> Why do we think what happened to Jose' can never
> happen to us?
> Why do we love to hear about others what we hate to
> be told about us?
> Why do some people feel jealous or even hate people
> in positions/with titles
> that they're dying to get?
> Why would people who live in the shadow of the
> Kilimanjaro go hungry?
> Why should island people like Banjulians have a
> drinking water problem?
> Why do we complain about racism when we are prone to
> the same prejudices?
> Why do we blame White Supremacists when we feel and
> act superior to each
> other?
> Why do we complain about job discrimination when
> many of us are where we are
> because of nepotism?
> Why are the most virulent anti-white African women
> the ones who imitate
> white people the most?
> Why should a woman wearing a "Black Pride" T-shirt,
> or a Rasta be bleaching
> her skin at the same time?
> Why should a national or Pan African leader be
> married to such a woman?
> Why is it that Black men who make the most
> anti-white noise are the ones who
> can't live without light skin  (Imitation-White)
> women?
> Why do we always seem to jump from the frying pan to
> the fire in terms of
> our leaders?
> Why do some people delude themselves that they can
> fool an entire nation all
> the time?
> Why do some people act as if they have a monopoly on
> intelligence?
> Why is money always hard to come by when you really
> need it?
> Why is money easy to come by when you least need it?
> Why does god allow such disparity in global wealth
> if he loves all people
> equally?
> Why are the most ungodly people, the most happy?
> Why should a president's son's life turn out to be
> worse than his butler's?
> Why do we need a big brain when most of us use less
> than 5% of it in our
> lifetime, while many are allergic to using it at
> all?
> Why do many men call themselves "Man of the House"
> when they neither have a
> house, nor qualify as a real man?
> Why do people always confuse "father" with "Dad?"
> Why are so many pretty women attracted to illiterate
> punk-ish men?
> Why are the most truthful people deemed the most
> "controversial?"
> Why do we all think our individual problems are the
> biggest there is?
> Why do we believe that our sins are minor compared
> to everyone else's?
> Why is sin a lot more fun than being virtuous?
> Why are people who flaunt their piety always the
> most hypocritical?
> Why do pretty women look so ordinary after they've
> been generous to you a
> few times?
> Why don't anyone call Jesus Christ a donkey because
> he was born in a stable?
> Why do people call themselves "lucky" for having ten
> children when they can
> hardly feed themselves, let alone some extra mouths?
> Why does Mother Pigeon thinks her two offspring are
> more valuable to her
> than Mother Hen's dozen are to her?
> Why do people with the most questionable reputation
> worry most about someone
> else damaging their reputation?
> Why is sex so taboo when it's so abundant?
> Why don't we call kittens born on a pillar
> "cat-a-pillar?"
> Why do we fear truth so much when it's only through
> it that we can make it?
> Why do we have such an acrimonious political climate
> when there are so many
> Desmond Tutus among us?
> Why is it so hard to find a good woman, and equally
> hard to let go of a bad
> one?
> Why do people kill each other only to preside over
> misery in a dysfunctional
> nation?
> Why are we so complacent with mediocrity?
> Why do so many of us settle for a dollar when we
> could easily be making five
> with some little extra effort?
> Why would a respectable lawyer's wife dump her
> husband to be a millionaire
> fool's play toy?
> Why can't some people help themselves when it comes
> to lying?
> Why is a single honorable person's conviction
> stronger than an alliance of a
> dozen unscrupulous characters?
> Why do Americans call their sport "Football" when
> neither a ball, nor the
> feet have much to do with the game?
> Why do African women talk for hours on the phone
> about their mutual friends?
> Why is it that the sorriest people are always the
> ones who feel "sorry" for
> someone else?
> Why would a person on the brink of execution
> complain about being scratched?
> Why does god see it fit to give us a Gatsha
> Buthelezi when all we want is a
> Nelson Mandela?
> Why are we so blind to the fact that "we" are the
> losers when the majority
> of our people are mired in misery?
>
>
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