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QUESTIONS THAT HAUNT ME

Can you cry under water?
 
How important does a person have to be before
they are considered assassinated instead of just
murdered?
 
Why do you have to "put your two cents in"... but
it's only a "penny for your thoughts"?
Where's that extra penny going to?
 
Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing
the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
 
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
 
What disease did cured ham actually have?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we
figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels
on luggage?
 
Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby"
when babies wake up like every two hours?
 
If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called
a hearing?
 
Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?
 
Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then
put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
 
Why do doctors leave the room while you change?
They're going to see you naked anyway.
 
Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
 
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns
the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human
being would eat?
 
If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there
a stupid song about him?
 
Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane ?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out
of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?
 
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on
all fours? They're both dogs!
 
If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that
ACME crap, why didn't he just buy dinner?
 
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made
from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
 
Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
have the same tune?
 
Why did you just try singing the two songs above?
 
Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the
hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?
 
Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face,
he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride,
he sticks his head out the window?

Interesting...  those are all ponderable!  Personally I think the extra penny is due to inflation.

Hahaha.

WHY DO WE DRIVE ON A PARKWAY AND PARK IN A DRIVEWAY?

Never could figure that one out :D

When roads were first created in cities, some were reserved for families and get togethers.  Those roads went into and through parks.  They were called "parkways."  There are many near me in Washington DC - still today with separate little picnic areas with tables, a grill, benches, etc.  My family often went to Rock Creek Park (along the Rock Creek Parkway) for summer picnics.  Each picnic area always had its own little parking lots called "drive ups," and "drive ways."  So people drove on the parkways to the parks and parked on the drive ups or drive ways at the park.

Driveways for homes were created with the "newer" neighborhoods in upper middle-class areas beginning in the nineteen teens, so families could "drive" the car right to the house and "park" the cars conveniently and safely off the roads.

Know it all :) All this time I thought someone just screwed up naming things, hehe. Thanks for the info though, that's cool!

I was raised by a grandmother, born 1888, who experienced all those societal changes, including parkways, driving cars, new roads, driveways, etc.  She used to say things like, "That can't be a parkway, there's no park..."  She and her sisters would regale me with stories about what things mean, words mean, and so forth.  So, that makes me a bona fide know-it-some.

Good to have you around here then. You can help fill in the gaps for those of us without connection to previous centuries :D

You don't need connections to previous centuries in order to be able to look up the entomology of words...  now, if you will excuse me, I have to fire up the Conestoga wagon and get to my next inspection...  hiyyah oxen!

I hope it's close by! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_wagon At least you'll save on Gas :D

When driving oxen GAS is a HUGE issue...

You didn't really need to look up Conestoga wagon, did you?

Yes actually you could probably drive your car on the methane. I know what a wagon was, wasn't sure on the constenega

 
 
       
Teeing off from the back tees. On his downswing, he suddenly realized that his wife, Marcie, was about to tee off from the red tees, directly in his path. Unable to stop his down swing he nailed the ball, hit Marcie directly in the right temple, killing her instantly.
 
A few days later Teddy received a call from the coroner concerning her autopsy."Teddy, your wife seems to have died from blunt force trauma to the head. You said you hit a golf ball and struck her in the temple. Is that correct?"
 
"Yes sir, " Teddy replied, "that's correct."
 
"Well, Teddy, I also found a large bruise on Marcie's right hip. Do you know anything about that?"
 
"Yes sir," Teddy said, "That would have been my mulligan.
 

Wow, a new face!  Tom, are you into linking websites?  If so, please let me know how to contact you. 

You can link my info below.  Thanks.  I will reciprocate immediately!   No joke... *

Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC
www.jaymarinspect.com
Serving all of Northern Virginia.

* I had to get joke in there somewhere....

Very funny :)

WHy do they use sterile needles to give lethal injections?

and what is a mulligan? ??? ???

Thanks Jay,
Brand new to site although I've been using Dominic's software for a couple of months. If only all my software worked as well as it does.
And yes, I'll swap links, or cars if yours gets better mileage than mine. LOL. 
my site is up. Tell me what you think.
http://www.i-nspect.com/

Thanks for the input
Tom Vurinaris

Thanks Tom.  You're in.  If you could add   ,LLC    to mine it would be great!   Thanks,   Jay