'Tis A Puzzlement
I don't understand why...
- the numbers on phones go down while the numbers on calculators go up?
- "cute as a button" is supposed to be a compliment? (Since when are buttons cute?)
- do we wash behind our ears? (Who really looks there?)
- don't the hairs on your arms get split ends?
- we say "It's colder than hell outside" when isn't it realistically always colder than hell since hell is supposed to be fire and brimstone?
- are the commercials for cable companies on cable but not on regular television? Don't they want the people without cable to buy the cable?
- is it that when things get wet they get darker, even though water is clear??
- isn't chocolate considered a vegetable, if chocolate comes from cocoa beans, and all beans are a vegetable?
- is toilet bowl cleaning liquid only blue?
- is vanilla ice cream white when vanilla extract is brown?
- do dogs sniff other dog's bottoms to say hello, why don't they just bark in their face or something?
- is a square meal served on round plates?
- aren't safety pins as safe as they say they are?
- is it that it's good to score under par in golf but its bad to be "under par" in any thing else?
- do people say, "You can't have your cake and eat it too"? Why would someone get cake if they can't eat it?
- is Charlie short for Charles if they are both the same number of letters?
- is snow white and ice clear? Aren't they just different forms of water?
- do they call the small candy bars the "fun sizes"?
- is Donkey Kong called "DONKEY" Kong if he's a monkey?
- do dogs walk around in circles before lying down?
- is it when we duck they call us chicken?
- is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
- are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?
- do they call it "morning sickness" even in the middle of the afternoon?
- is there not a Channel 1 on TV?
- do we feel blue? Follow-up question: what color does a Smurf feel when they are down?
- do we say "bye bye" but not "hi hi"?
- is it we have the weight of the world on our shoulders but have to get it off our chests?
- do they call it a RUNNING BACK when he is running forward?
- is it called a TV set when there is only one?
- do they call it an escalator even if it takes you down?
- is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
- do we call goosebumps goosebumps? Do geese get people bumps?
- is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
- do people say "You scared the living daylights out of me" when daylight is not living?
- is it called eggplant, when there's no egg in it?
- does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They're both dogs!
- does Bugs bunny walk around the cartoon naked, but puts a bathing suit on when he goes swimming?
- is the blackboard green?
- is it that when people freak out they are said to be "having a cow"? When cows freak out, are they said to be "having a person"?
- is a person that handles your money called a BROKER?
- do they call it taking a dump? Shouldn't it be leaving a dump?
- do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?
- is it good to be a Daddy's girl, but bad to be a Momma's boy?
- why do you have to buy her friends if Barbie is so popular?
- do bars advertise live bands? What does a dead band sound like?
- is it called "after dark", when it is really after light?
- is it when two planes almost hit each other it is called a "near miss"?
- is it that when a person tells you there are over a million stars in the universe, you believe them; but if someone tells you there's wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?
Think about it. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everyone!
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