[2248] in Humor
HUMOR: Great Questions to Ponder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Mar 24 20:59:50 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 19:51:58 EST
From: Amy Beverley Chan & Jeremy David Weiss <slinkie@cyberspace.org>
THINGS TO PONDER - Part I
- Submitted by PaulDmt
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1. Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money
they already know you don't have?
2. Why do you press harder on a remote control when you know
the battery is dead?
3. Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people
appear bright until you hear them speak?
4. If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice
as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
5. Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?
6. Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished?
Shouldn't they be called builts?
7. Why is the alphabet in that order?
8. If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the
universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
9. If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward,
would the taxi driver end up owing you money?
(I've tried it, it doesn't work)
10. Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?
11. Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?
12. Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?
13. If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
14. When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?
15. Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is
open, it's not a door?
16. Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?
