Life's greatest mysteries

[nehalita]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

why does airline food and hospital food taste exactly the same? Are airlines and hospitals owned by the same people?!

no your tastebuds are just so numbed that they taste equally horrible

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?

[Taylor]

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"?

[DjAlamose]

Originally Posted by boiler

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"?

That’s why I ofen say we speak American not English

Why is it that different parts of the country have different accents? And how did it get that way?

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Why do men have nipples?

How come my set of hex wrenches, needs a hex wrench to tighten?

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Ogre

Why do men have nipples?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140...Fencoding=UTF8

Why is there a photo of an olive on the cover of THAT book ?!

[Aburame Shino]

Is there such a thing as a true infinity?

[Mike]

Originally Posted by dlavery

If Teflon-coated pans have a no-stick surface, then how to they get the Teflon to stick to the pans?

The pans aren't originally no-stick, they become no-stick when the Teflon is applied.

Originally Posted by Ogre

Why do men have nipples?

Humans are started off as asexual creatures, neither a male nor female. The nipple just stays when the body "decides" to become male.

Why does the Linux version of Firefox have "Preferences" ("Options.." for Windows) under "Edit" instead of "Tools"?

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Capt.ArD

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.

The car is only moving 60 miles per hour in relationship to the space ship. This only works with conventional theories of physics, Special relativity disproved that.



How do they get the m's on m&m's?

[JoeXIII'007]

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

[artdutra04]

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

[Taylor]

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?

[sheltie234]

In class, why do teachers tell you to take notes when you're just copying down what they tell you?

[KenWittlief]

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 ?!

[Bcahn836]

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?

[Capt.ArD]

In a language where "poly" means "many" and ticks are tiny bloodsucking creaturess, why do they call it politics?