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Why?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie H Rosenblum)
Mon Dec 19 13:29:53 1994

To: rfrie01@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu, humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 13:21:38 EST
From: Jamie H Rosenblum <jamie@MIT.EDU>


>          WHY ASK WHY
>     
>          Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't 
>          drink and drive?
>     
>          Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
>     
>          Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
>     
>          Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of 
>          parachutes?
>     
>          Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is 
>          prohibited there?
>     
>          Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?
>     
>          Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
>     
>          How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the 
>          mornings?
>     
>          If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there 
>          locks on the doors? 
>     
>          If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
>     
>          If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick 
>          to the pan?
>     
>          If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it 
>          from a height, what would happen?
>     
>          If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens 
>          when you turn on the headlights?
>     
>          You know how most packages say "Open here".  What is the protocol 
>          if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?
>     
>          Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up atm?
>     
>          Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
>     
>          Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a 
>          shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called 
>          cargo?
>     
>          You know that little indestructible black box that is used on 
>          planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same 
>          substance?
>     
>          Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, 
>          you turn down the volume on the radio?
>     

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