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Why do Ziploc bags come from the factory in a closed state? Cumulatively, probably tens of years of time could be saved if the bags did not have to be opened before something was placed inside. What's your mystery? |
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Where is the object that when you need it you cant find it?
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood? |
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If a mute swears does his mother wash his hands?
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Why dont railroad crossings have green lights, so you know its ok to cross (and the power isnt off) ?!
Why isnt feburary 29th like FreeParking on Monopoly, so we all get $500 and get to do whatever we feel like for a whole day?! Why did my wife write "DNR" on my forehead with a black Shapie when I dozed off in the hospital?! Why does the motion sensor in the mens room turn the lights OFF when I walk in the room?! Why do you never catch a red traffic light when you have something on your mind that you need to write down?! Why do weathermen tell you there is a tornado watch, or a tornado warning in effect, when they ALWAYS immediately tell you what it means?! Why not just say "a tornado has been spotted" or NOT?! Why does Dish Network bleep out the seven words you cant say on TV when they have comedians doing standup and saying one of those words every 3 seconds?! how are you suppose to get the jokes when they bleep every third word?! Why does a Dishwasher have a "Sanitize" button?! When do you want your dished not sanitized? When you could use a few days off from work?! Is it for people who believe all life is sacred, and they want to give the germs a fighting chance?! |
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Why is DDR called dance dance revolution when it isnt really dancing?? And what's with "dance dance", one dance isn't enough?? RAWR I DONT GET IT
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Why is whatever you lost always in the last place you look??
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Why is it that you can never find a sharpie at robotics?
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Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
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If Teflon-coated pans have a no-stick surface, then how to they get the Teflon to stick to the pans?
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How was God born? How did this universe come into existance? What is life?
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The question that will cast any Mensa meeting into a long profound silence: "If we're all so smart, how come we're not rich?!"
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If winners never quit, and quitters never win, does it make sense to quit while you're ahead?
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How much wood would a wood chuck chuck - if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
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Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much of the intervening time watching "Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits" commercials?
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Why do hotdogs come in 10's and hotdog buns in 8's?
Why do they call them buildings instead of builts? Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? Why does the light switch have on/off on it? When the lights are on you can tell and when they're off it's too dark to read. Why do they call them apartments when they are all together? |
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Why is the bottom of the goal six and a half feet tall? Does Dave really like hearing about us tall FIRSTers hitting our heads? :p Will FIRST have a water game befoe i graduate from high school? Why do I complain so much? :p
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How much ground would a groundhog hog if a ground hog could hog ground? These aren't mine but they are my favorite unanswerable questions. Can you be arrested for selling illegal-sized paper? If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? If you're born again, do you have two belly buttons? What if there were no hypothetical situations? Where would we be without rhetorical questions? Will your answer to this question be no? Is there another word for synonym? How do Keep Off The Grass signs get there? If a person told you they were a pathological liar, would you believe them? If someone gives you a penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, where does the other penny go? Do you get change? Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths? Why can't Mr. Fork and Mr. Electrical Socket be friends? :D Who was the first to see a cow and think "I wonder what will happen if i squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out?" What is the speed of darkness? Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected? Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? And the eternal question, If buttered bread always lands on the butter-side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what happens if you strap buttered bread to a cat's back? |
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why does airline food and hospital food taste exactly the same? Are airlines and hospitals owned by the same people?!
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Why exactly do we need sleep? Sure we need it or we will die in a fairly short amount of time, but what makes us become tired and requires us to sleep? Horomones? What?
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Why do people continuously drink or eat something and exclaim: "This tastes terrible" and then proceed to offer you a drink or a bite? |
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what happens if you are in a vehicle travelling at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights?
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Who decided that parking structers had to be sooooo small so my van couldn't fit in it...
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what happens if you put a Segway on top of another Segway? Do they cancel each other out and both fall over?
What if you put something that is dynamically unstable on a Segway? UPDATE! : Its been done => |
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why do banks leave their doors wide open and chain the pens to the counters?
you are theoretically able to get to ALMOST light speed. like within 50 MPH. so what if you have a really long spaceship travelling that fast, and a car inside it, that can get to 60 MPH? neither machine is going faster than light, but the car would theoretically break the barrier. |
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why isn't the meaning of life in the dictionary?
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Why do they make a Mag light that is nearly 3 feet long?
Why is the bottom of a Jello pudding cup convex (when looking into it), making it harder to get the last bit of pudding out? Why does my local hardware store sell standard bolts in packs of two and metric bolts in packs of three? Why does my local hardware store stock one giant turnbuckle? (4' long, probably 40 lbs, and $100). Only one. I'm guessing if a radio tower's turnbuckle broke, they wouldn't be going to OSH to get a new one. |
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Why did all the previous version of AOL created before AOL high speed have a default away message saying, "I am on the phone right now" when the amount of people who had a second phone line were only in the low 15% and talking on the phone when you didn’t have a second phone line was impossible while online and this was also before the cell phone era?
Don't even get me started about Kids Bop and Rigatoni Niños. |
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cause if you were on dialup, you were ALWAYS on the phone!
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why do people never realize what is is around them in their everyday lives?
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Anyhow, why is it that when something can go wrong, it will go wrong? (Murphy's Law) |
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Wouldn't aol be making money if they didn't send people 2 months of free service every month and a half?
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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?
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Why does it seem like common sense isn't very common?
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Why do the tallest people sit directly in front of me in the movie theatre when they have an entire empty row?
Why do sounds annoy us when other people make them, but not when we do it ourselves? |
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Why does the University of South Carolina have a computer help system that is dependent on a browser and platform (Windows and IE) that both have shrinking market share?
Why do airlines charge so much money for a short hop until someone comes in and raises a ruckus? |
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If a man walks into the woods and talks and there are no women around, is he still wrong?
Is my IAH professor being serious when after a half hour of talking into the map he turns around and asks if we have any questions? |
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Why does the aviation industry, in general, often use tombstone regulation? Why should hundreds of people die before a problem is recognized and/or solved?
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why is chuck norris, all of a sudden, so great?
this whole thing seems kinda random to me. Is there anything cooler than a "cyborg ninja pirate zombie"? |
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If indirect is the opposite of direct, then why do inflammable and flammable mean the same thing? |
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How do earthworms mate? :D
*lol dont answer it. i know now. it's one of those questions where u always want to ask but forget to. i brought it up in physics class b4... it was really funny.*** |
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Why does Medicaid not pay for gastric bypass?
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why do they say "turn a frown upside down" if it's facing upward in the end. shouldn't they say "right side up"? i mean, that is the right side... or is it? why isn't it the left side up? |
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We should come together as an English-speaking people and put an end to one of life's greatest mysteries: Do we or do we not pronounce the 't' in "often"?
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Why is it that different parts of the country have different accents? And how did it get that way? |
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Why do men have nipples?
How come my set of hex wrenches, needs a hex wrench to tighten? |
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Why is there a photo of an olive on the cover of THAT book ?! |
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Is there such a thing as a true infinity?
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Why does the Linux version of Firefox have "Preferences" ("Options.." for Windows) under "Edit" instead of "Tools"? |
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How do they get the m's on m&m's? |
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Gosh, some ponderings and what not:
Why are there a great many people in this world that feel that it is necessary to talk about stuff that will not matter in the minutes or in the rest of their lives for that matter, after the conversation has ended? Why are there people who find it OK to walk in the road where the cars drive when they could just move a bit over to their right or left, there's something called a sidewalk, and it is so much safer? Why, when walking through the hallways at school and going from class to class, do some students prefer to just stop right in the middle of the hallway, ignorant of those who are considerate enough to keep moving and stay out of the way of student traffic? Why, when working at a department store, workers find messes of clothes on the sales floor and in the fitting room when customers could spend just a few more seconds putting what they tried on back the way they found it? Then they complain that the store is messy, disorganized, and not shoppable. Quite frankly, why haven't stores put up signs reading: "Please be kind and put that back where you got it from."? Oh yeah, why are people obsessed with certain things that will get them nowhere whatsoever, no matter how great a feeling they get from it or not? Why in the world do people debate the existence of a God? Let me put it this way: if the human race decides there isn't one and somehow 'proves' it, and there just happens to be one, and that one is very angry from our conclusion... hmmm... now think about it for a minute... yeah, we're SCREWED! So why do we risk? Why is there arrogance, ignorance, pride, honor, and everything else that somehow makes somebody else look a little bit stupid? Just thoughts that run through my head occasionally. -Joe |
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Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? :confused:
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If a fish eats then swims around, does he get cramps?
If it's such a small world, why does the price of postage keep going up? A pineapple is neither a pine nor an apple. Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island. A groundhog is not a hog - it's a rodent. Same with woodchucks - they're not made of wood, nor chucks. Otherwise we'd use them in our gears. Why is it that everything you abhor as a teenager, you end up liking as an adult, and in turn, things teenagers love seem ridiculous? How many holes does it take to fill the Albert Hall? |
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In class, why do teachers tell you to take notes when you're just copying down what they tell you?
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Why is it, when a human being first has a child, the parent is highly intelligent. In fact in the childs eyes the parent knows everything.
But then as the child gets older the parent gets stupider and stupider, until the child is 18, at which point the parent doesnt know anything about anything. But then as the child gets older still, the parent starts getting more and more intelligent. Finally when the child has a child of its own, the parent seems to know everything (again). (Its almost like some weird time travel thing has happened, because it now seems like the parent knew what they were talking about all along) How can this be ?! |
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Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"? ..> Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"? Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dish washing liquid made with real lemons? Why is the person who invests all your money called a broker ? Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes? You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?! ! Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal? |
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In a language where "poly" means "many" and ticks are tiny bloodsucking creaturess, why do they call it politics?
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It would be pretty silly if you keep looking for the thing you lost after you find it. |
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If they're called Fingers, how come they don't fing?
Noodle that one for a while. |
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How come when you 'spring clean' nothing gets clean?
What is the point of a top sheet (On a bed)? Who decided to hand out circles of metal tied to a ribbon when you win? Why flip flop? why not flop flip? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: |
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Something I wonder, is zero everything or nothing? (like technically speaking) Like, I know it's nothing, but this thing I read in a book blew my mind. Actually, my questions is really, what is the vanishing point? Zero: The Biography of Dangerous Idea ^ This is actually a good book. I read it and it talked about how in the picture of the railroad tracks or river going away from you, what is the vanishing point? By definition a point has no properties except location, meaning it has no area and can not hold anything else, yet everything not in the picture is held within that point, which is technically speaking, impossible. Does anyone understand what I mean by this? |
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How are you supposed to use a dictionary to find out how to spell a word if you cant find it because you don't know the spelling?
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Someone beat me to it.
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Why has this thread gone unanswered for so long?
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Is Tupac really alive in Jamaica?
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Why do we de-plane, I don't remember ever planing?
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That color between black and white-- is it GREY or GRAY?
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It's funny how many of these came from Carlin, Gallagher, or Wright. If the plural of mouse is mice, why isn't the plural of house hice? I would say plural of spouse should be spice, but one spouse is |
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Who IS JVN?
I know who the real JVN is...or who claims to be it, at least |
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Why are women always right?
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